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An integrated Marketing Communication professional, with over 14 years of experience in Marketing Communication of which over 3 years has been with Bajaj Electricals Ltd. as General Manager – Advertising and Brand Development.

Ssumier S Pasricha is an Indian Television and Film Actor having risen to popularity portraying Shubroto in Code Red (Indian TV series), Shailu in Sasural Simar Ka on Colors (TV channel) & Randy Bhai in a Musical English play “Mahim Junction” Produced & directed by Shekhar Kapur / Sohaila Kapoor. His recent creation Pammi Aunty on social media has become a rage among the audience, Pammi Aunty is a middle aged Punjabi woman who has an opinion about everything. This character who has taken the internet by storm has spared nothing from Brexit, to UEFA Euro 2016, Airtel 4G and Game of Thrones. She rants about everything under the sun. Sporting giant pink glasses, her hair tied in a towel with the stuck-on curlers she criticises her daughter-in-law in her typical Punjabi accent. This Punjabi aunty is on a roll and she is hilarious.
Ssumier is fluent in 6 Languages. He has worked in more than 30 plays and has performed in both National and International theater festivals with renowned directors like Sohaila Kapur, Shekhar Kapur, Vivek Mansukhani, Sabina Mehta Jeitly

Ravi Kumar

AVP - Partnerships | AdLift View Profile

Ravi Kumar is a Digital Marketing Consultant and currently working as Assistant Vice President-Sales and BD with AdLift. Riding on the digital wave while serving companies likes AdGlobal360, mydala and Digital Monkeys, Ravi has experienced the digital world as a universe that provides the perfect blend of applied strategy and creative flair. Successful and appreciated completion on digital marketing projects has increased his enthusiasm and continues to bring together individuals, companies and brands to produce creative digital solutions. Ravi is also very active in sharing his knowledge via webinars.

Group Vice President & Head Marketing | Policybazaar.com and Paisabazaar.com View Profile

As Group Vice President & Head of Marketing, Sai is responsible for leading the Brand, Marketing & Social Media efforts at Policybazaar Group Ventures – Policybazaar.com & Paisabazaar.com. He carries a decade of experience across Brand Management, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Social Media and PR functions. Prior to joining Policybazaar, he had worked within marketing and brand management roles at leading insurance companies, Max Life insurance and Aviva India. During the early part of his career, he has also worked with leading advertising agencies like JWT and Publicis India.

Avinash is a performance driven B2B and B2C Sales and Marketing expert with more than 20 years of experience. He has worked with traditional and digital media for last 2 decades and got a good understanding of integrated media and marketing solutions. He has been leading and mentoring strong and successful teams to turn around businesses. He has worked in markets across India and worked with clients across verticals. Weaving creative solutions to successfully address complex marketing challenges has been his expertise.

His goal is to make a positive difference to the lives and fortunes of the people, clients and organisations he ever work with. He is a movie freak, a biker and an avid traveler. His interests have helped in boosting his creative fertility. His key strengths include Business Development, Ideation, Key Accounts Management, Leadership, Mentoring and Networking.

Kavita Chowkimane

VP - Sales and Marketing | Portea View Profile

Kavita heads sales & marketing at Portea, India’s leading in-home healthcare provider. She is a Consumer Marketing Enthusiast with 10+ years of experience across FMCG (Marico), PCs (Dell India) & E-commerce (TaxiForSure). She is very passionate about all things marketing & start-ups. Loves to translate consumer insights & ideas into tangible business results. She is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad & NITK Surathkal.

She has held leadership positions with Mahindra, L&T Financial Services Group & HSBC. She has also worked with brands such as Tata Motors, BPL Mobile, Draft FCB-Ulka and was the Marketing Manager for Saffola and Mediker at Marico. Her financial services experience constitutes of HSBC Global Asset Management and L&T insurance where she was Head – Marketing, E-Commerce and Customer Service. She also managed marketing for L&T Financial Services IPO and L&T Infrastructure Bonds.

She last led Marketing, Brand, Digital, Analytics, E-Commerce & Inventory Sales at Mahindra Holidays as Chief Marketing Officer. Both Digital & Inventory Sales has seen tremendous growth under her leadership. She also led the Digital Marketing Training for Mahindra Group as a member of the Group Mahindra Sales & Marketing Academy.

In the last 6 years, on the back of success of digital business at Club Mahindra & setting up the successful e-commerce business at L&T Insurance she has been invited to speak at technology & digital forums across the country and at International forums such as India Digital Summit, Ad-Tech, I-Media, CeBIT and DMAi. She has been a jury member numerous times for AdClub’s EMVIES, EFFIES, ABBYs; IAMAI Digital awards & DMAi awards.

Selected Awards & Recognition:-
2015, ‘Content Marketer of the Year’ award by DMAi
2014, SocialSamosa listed Deepali one of the top 8 futuristic brand heads in India.
2013, ‘Leading Woman in Insurance’ Award
2013 “50 Most Talented Brand Leaders of India” by The World Brand Congress
2012, PaulWriter recognized her as one of the top 50 CMOs for the Marketing & IT Recognition (M.IT.R) program for using technology to enhance marketing.

She enjoys teaching and mentoring and has mentored students and e-commerce start-ups. (Guest faculty at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai)

Experienced hand in managing customer service & collection revenues across Call Center, Telecom, Life Insurance operations with more than crores in revenues, & high-growth & established companies.

Participative management professional; results focused, practical and progressive leadership experiences have created a passion for surpassing financial and service objectives via a combination of excellent service delivery, lean operating methods and incentive driven rewards for team achievement. Derive genuine pleasure from transforming high potential staff into outstanding performers demonstrating the creativity critical to financial and operational success. Core professional competencies include:

As a Vice President – Sales at Sociomantic, Avinash Tharani is responsible for working with brands and advertisers to fulfil their online marketing needs across India. Avinash has an illustrious career of sales and business development that spans more than a decade across organisations like Times of India, Affle & India Today. In the last stint with India Today where he spent more than 5 years, he built the base for India Today Digital & soared them to new heights. He has worked across platforms on Display, Mobile, Content And serviced clients across various verticals.

Ridhima Kapoor is currently heading Gameloft Marketing for Indian sub-continent, Malaysia and Singapore. Having worked with both brands and start-ups across IT & Mobile VAS, Ridhima perfectly blends the traditional marketing methods and new digital initiatives for holistic 360 marketing initiatives. She is passionate about digitization of different aspects of business like consumer & market insights, product innovations, brand building, customer acquisitions, building communities & word of mouth through brand advocates. At Gameloft, she is working closely with leading Mobile OEMs, content developers and media agencies for co-joint marketing activities.

Kanika Mittal

Director - Brand Marketing and Communications | Reebok View Profile

Kanika Mittal took up the role as Marketing Head of Reebok India at the definitive moment when the brand
positioned itself as the fitness initiators and authenticators of India. With a healthy challenge ahead of her, she undertook her role with a single minded approach to innovate and introduce fresh ideas in every aspect of business. Some of these initiatives included Reebok’s massive brand campaign featuring 3 fitness icons – MS Dhoni, John Abraham and Nargis Fakri to reinforce the fitness positioning , the path-breaking digital innovation ‘Ignite your Fitness Fire’ and more recently a successful global launch for the Reebok ZQuick. Her leadership also led to clutter breaking Retail, OOH concepts with PR & Digital playing a key role in orchestrating the reach and engagement quotient of various marketing programs. The latest addition to her achievements is the undertaking of John Abraham and Nargis Fakhri as the fitness ambassador for Reebok India.

Over the last 7 years as part of the Marketing team at Reebok Kanika has had a range of incredible results across the Communications mandate including Integrated Marketing, Corporate Communications and PR, Research, Product launches and transitioning to a new positioning for the brand. Through marketing innovations, topical digital initiatives and an ability to optimize her budget for best results, Kanika has helped Reebok gain a strong foothold in the consumer mind and heart space while keeping commercial and business objectives at the heart of all strategy. She has been an integral part of the leadership team and has effectively led the communication of the brand to convey their reinforced fitness positioning.

Kanika has many successful campaigns under her belt including the recent ‘Live with Fire’ campaign featuring MS Dhoni, Nargis Fakhri and John Abraham, the highly innovative ZQuick Campaign, the clutter breaking EasyTone campaign, the campaign which transformed Reebok into a fitness brand – CrossFit and RealFlex and more.

As a professional, Kanika is insightful, hands-on, and believes in managing her team by empowering them. Kanika completed her Bachelors in Commerce from Delhi University followed by a 2 year MBA from MICA wherein she majored in Brand Management and ranked in top 10% of her batch.

Nidhi Hola

Sr. Director of Marketing | GoDaddy India View Profile

Nidhi Hola is the Sr. Director of Marketing at GoDaddy India, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses. She leads the strategy development & execution of marketing campaigns for GoDaddy in India, helping position the company as the largest platform for Indian SMB’s and entrepreneurs to get online and grow their businesses.
With over 17 years of experience in marketing & communications, Nidhi is proficient in the creation & execution of performance-driven, integrated B2B & B2C campaigns in corporate & agency environments.
In her current role, Nidhi is responsible for driving all aspects of marketing, advertising, branding, sponsorships, marketing alliances, research and channel marketing. She is also responsible for orchestrating the company’s PR and social media campaigns.
Nidhi believes that execution is also a strategy and the two are inseparable

He has brought success to top-notch assignments across Blue Chip FMCG, BFSI and Retail companies across India & Middle East North Africa; through relentless focus on values-driven sustainable growth.

He has senior management experience in Strategy, Systems & Skills development, P&L Driving, Recruitment & Talent management, Setting up/ strengthening Marketing Departments as well as founding a New Business Division.

MR. GYAN GUPTA

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AT DAINIK BHASKAR DIGITAL

Gyan Gupta is the Chief Executive Officer of DB Digital, the digital arm of Dainik Bhaskar Group since April, 2015. Earlier, he served as the COO of DB Digital and has been associated with the organization for almost 8 years. He comes with 18 years of exhaustive experience in media, digital content and technology; handling multiple profiles including Business Development, Marketing & Pre-Sales, and Delivery & Operations. Under his abled guidance dainikbhaskar.com witnessed unprecedented growth and success by emerging as the Second Largest News Destination in the country and the World’s Largest Hindi News Site, as per comScore. He has been instrumental in conceptualizing and introducing many unique features and new properties to the portfolio of DB Digital.

MR. NIRAJ KAUSHIK

SR. VICE-PRESIDENT OF DIGITAL AT TECH MAHINDRA

Niraj Kaushik is Sr. Vice-President of Digital at Tech Mahindra. In order to serve its customers better in the Digital age, Tech M itself needs to transform from an IT services provider to a Digital services provider. Niraj’s charter is to create the transformation strategy and then execute on various levels like Business, Delivery, Skills and Branding to deliver the revenue and innovation goals for its customers. He has led business and strategy in critical growth areas of digital and cloud, and was instrumental in Oracle India achieving exponential growth in cloud. Niraj has been associated with the IT industry for more than 27 years in various leadership roles at Trend Micro, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and HCL. He is excited to explore new business models and be a change agent. Niraj holds a degree in Electronics Engineering from Nagpur University and is an alumnus of the ISB-Kellog Global Advanced Program on Leadership.

MR. GULSHAN VERMA

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER AT TIMES INTERNET LIMITED

Gulshan Verma is the Chief Revenue Officer at Times Internet Limited – India’s largest Internet Network and the digital venture of Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited, India's largest media conglomerate. He will be leading the charge for TIL and its variety of businesses in the online and mobile space.

Gulshan has over 15 years of experience in the digital media industry, having worked in Europe, North America and Asia. Prior to joining TIL, Gulshan has enjoyed successful stints as the General Manager SEA and India Outbrain, Chief Revenue Officer, Komli Media, Director of Sales Strategy for Yahoo! India, and Director of Product Marketing for Yahoo! Search Marketing in the United States across the years

He has also worked for Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Co and IMG.

Gulshan has a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, a Masters in Political Economy and a BSc Economics from the London School of Economics, and holds two patents in search monetization.

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulshan

MR. KUNAL TOMAR

GENERAL MANAGER AT EXPERIAN SERVICES INDIA

MR. APURVA CHAMARIA

VICE PRESIDENT & HEAD, CORPORATE MARKETING AT HCL TECH

Apurva Chamaria is the Vice President and Head of Corporate Marketing for HCL Technologies, a 7 Bn US$ global IT major. Under his leadership HCL became the fastest growing brand in the Interbrand top Indian brands list for 2 years in a row (No. 18 in 2015) and was valued in the Brand Finance Global 500 2016 league table with a brand value of 3.2 Bn US$ (up by 23% with a rating of AA+). In the last 3 years the HCL campaigns have won 101 prestigious global and regional marketing awards. In his 11 years at HCL, he’s performed various roles including being CEO’s Vineet Nayar’s EA, Sales Director at HCL America driving business development and leading Marketing and Strategy for Enterprise Applications Business.

He has worked in various sales & marketing positions at Ranbaxy Laboratories (now Sun Pharmaceuticals). He’s also been a journalist and a client servicing executive at an advertising agency. In various parts of his career he’s worked in Asia-Pacific, India, Africa, U.K. and North America.

Thought-Leader: He’s regarded as a thought-leader on “digital transformation” and is regularly quoted in publications. He’s a sought after speaker and has key-noted at TED x, IAMAI MarCon, DMAI GMAW, Oracle Cloud World, LinkedIn Tech Connect, Microsoft Ignite, Paul Writer GIIMS, Hindustan Times Top 50 Brands, Exchange for Media Pitch Top 50 Brands etc. and teaches a full credit digital marketing course at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC)& Great Lakes Institute of Management. He’s a member of the advisory board at Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA), Ahmedabad. He’s active member of the Rotary Club Delhi Mid-West.

Journalist & Author: He’s a columnist for the Pitch and Digital Market Asia magazines. His book “You are the key – unlocking doors through Social Selling” (Bloomsbury) hit # 2 in the Amazon India Best-Sellers list*within 20 days of being launched in Jan 2016 and is currently a best-seller on the WH Smith best-seller list as #1. It was also recognized by Prime-minister Modi for contributing to Digital India.

Mentor & Angel Investor: In his spare times he likes mentoring start-ups and helping them scale their business. Some of the start-ups he’s mentoring include Play Your Sports (Sports-Tech), Funlockar, Filmwallahs (Media-Tech), Sponsify me (Ad-tech), Instafeez & Chq Book (Fin-Tech), etc. Government of India recently appointed Apurva as an advisor to Invest India, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.

He holds a double master’s in business management (PGP from IMI) and advertising (from IIMC, JNU). He completed hisschooling from Mayo College, Ajmer. Currently he’s pursuing his senior executive leadership program from Harvard Business School, Boston.

Sangeeta is a communication and marketing specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the field of branding, communication, digital media, campaigns and training delivery. She has extensive experience of working in a cross-cultural global environment. Before joining CAF India, Sangeeta managed several communication assignments mostly for the countries in the Middle East and Africa. She is a commerce graduate with diploma in software engineering. Sangeeta holds a certificate in international communications from Chartered Institute of Marketing, United Kingdom.

Under her leadership, the CAF India brand has been successfully positioned as a trusted name in the sector and has created a remarkable brand recall amongst its stakeholders that is donors, corporates and NGOs partners. She has put in place a dynamic team to focus on future prospects of effective marketing of the CAF India brand via digital, offline, media and partnership space to help further grow the organisation’s philanthropy portfolio and market presence in India.

Her skills include a wide range of integrated CSR-marketing approaches and initiatives, effective communication tools focused on organisational development and management.

She has strategised and delivered dynamic campaigns in her previous assignments outside India. Few Awards and accolades she received include:

ï‚· Award winning campaigns like Right To sanitation and Click To Clean

ï‚· Award winning Speed Sisters campaign in Jerusalem

https://www.facebook.com/speedsisters

ï‚· When South Sudan became a new country, Sangeeta launched the UK Foreign Office’s digital presence. She received the ‘Above and Beyond the Call of Duty’ award from the office for successfully managing the South Sudan digital presence launch project.

ï‚· Queen’s visit campaign (UAE and Oman)

ï‚· Human rights campaigns – Living Ramadan in FCO

o http://storify.com/ukmiddleeast/living-ramadan

o https://www.facebook.com/livingramadan/timeline?filter=2

ï‚· Think Green campaign (Kuwait)

o She worked on various ministerial visit integrated campaigns – Prime Minister David Cameroon, Foreign Secretary William Hague, Alistair Burt and other ministerial visits to Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.

o She pioneered a digital evaluation process – an annual health check which is now implemented globally to evaluate the web presence of over 240 British Embassy websites across the world.

MS. NEHA MODGIL

CHIEF UX STRATEGIST AT TECHVED

Neha co-owns TECHVED Consulting India Pvt. Ltd since 2007 and is closely associated with the company as Chief UX Strategist. The company caters User Experience Design Services across various domains to top notch Indian and International Clients.Her passion lies in inventing new and powerful ways to make consumer’s digital experiences better. Her approach is often targeted to transform user and business needs into viable, usable and adorable product and interface solutions. Her 15+ years of experience in UX combined with innovative thinking and excellent problem solving skills is reflected in every project that the company undertakes.

MR. SUBHRANGSHU NEOGI

DIRECTOR, HEAD OF GROUP MARKETING & BRAND AT RELIGARE

As the head of the group’s marketing efforts, Subhrangshu oversees and offers strategic guidance for marketing programs across all businesses straddling a diverse bouquet of products, channels and segments. He is also the chief custodian for the Religare Brand having navigated it since inception and responsible for the overall architecture, positioning and consistency across all platforms. He is a key enabler for various alliances to effectively deliver cross sell, up sell opportunities leveraging synergies across the group portfolio. He has also been instrumental in driving various strategic programs in the realm of investor education and has consistently evangelized a “digital first” culture within the group. With almost 2 decades of experience in integrated marketing, sales and strategic business development roles spanning categories such as FMCG, Retail, Telecom, Media and now Financial Services, he loves to take on new challenges.

MR. ASHISH JOSHI

PRACTICE LEAD - IOT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS AT WIPRO

Ashish is Practice Lead, IOT Business Solutions in Wipro Digital. He has played both technology and business role in his professional career and brings with him in-depth experience in the space of IoT/M2M across various industries like telecom, industrial manufacturing, healthcare, energy, utilities and retail.Bringing the cross industry domain and technology knowledge, identifying real world challenges, and using this information to identify and solve customer problems are key passion for Ashish. The key to this is a right balance between technology & business.

His other interest lies in keeping updated with the latest technology developments and rolling up the sleeves and trying out stuff on the ground.

MR. SUMIT KUMAR

VICE PRESIDENT GROWTH & PRODUCT AT OXIGEN WALLET

An engineer and MBA by education, Sumit Kumar has over 11 years of professional experience in building businesses from ground up and managing P&L across several business vertical including financial services, online media and mobile advertising technology. Sumit is currently the Vice President (Growth) for Oxigen Wallet. Prior to this role, he has been instrumental in driving growth and opening new markets for companies like InMobi , Tyroo Technologies, Mobext to name a few.

Extremely passionate about technology, Sumit is constantly following the latest technology trends across industries and has spent most of his professional life in start- ups. Despite his professional and personal achievements, he is still looking forward to that “moonshot” moment. Sumit enjoys travelling, watching movies and is a fitness enthusiast. A big Formula 1 fan, he spends his free time gaming on mobile and Xbox. He also enjoys reading autobiographies and is quite adventurous with his love for experimenting with different cuisine.

MR. GAURAV HAZRATI

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & HEAD, DIGITAL INITIATIVES AT INDUSIND BANK

Gaurav Hazrati is Senior Vice President and Heads Digital Initiatives at IndusInd Bank. He has worked as an ‘Intra-preneur’ throughout his career spearheading various Innovations, Digital Acquisition and building Digital Business lines. Early in his career, he was the founding member of Axis Bank’s Retail broking Business and was instrumental in creating AxisDirect.in. Gaurav has done his MBA from Faculty Of Management Studies and Innovation management Executive Course from Harvard Business School.

MR. KUNAAL BHARDWAJ

MARKETING HEAD AT DAINIK BHASKAR DIGITAL

With years of experience in top agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, Havas, he is now spearheading the marketing initiatives and activities of DB Digital. After getting into the Digital Business, he is primarily focusing on the emerging markets in India, user acquisition, amplifying social footprint and market development on digital. Under his abled guidance DainikBhaskar.com has come up with multiple path-breaking initiatives and campaigns.

MR. MANISHA SOOD

DIRECTOR AND COUNTRY GENERAL MANAGER(INDIA) AT FITBIT

Manisha Sood is the Director and Country General Manager-India for Fitbit. Manisha has joined the company in August 2015, and was previously the Director, SMB for Microsoft India. At Microsoft, Manisha was responsible for leading the sales and marketing function of the Small & Medium Enterprise Business within India. Prior to Microsoft, she was at SanDisk where she was Country Manager & Director for the India & SAARC region for over six years. She has to her credit launching the SanDisk business in India and taking the brand to the leadership position. Manisha also evangelized Marketing for SanDisk in driving the brand’s first ever TV campaign in the world which was later introduced in US and Latin America region. In her career spanning over 25 years, Manisha has been in country head roles for over a decade-and-a-half. Prior to SanDisk, Manisha worked with Kodak India Ltd. as General Manager, Digital Capture and Home Printing for 10 years and with Modi Olivetti as Business Manager. Manisha has over two dozen leadership awards and citations to her credit including the Top 10 Most Influential People in Photography award five times in a row for her incessant contribution to the Indian imaging sector. She was also listed among the 10 Women on Top in Indian IT by The Economic Times and Telecom’s Women Team by the My Mobile magazine. Manisha holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Bombay University and a Diploma in Computer Science from IITC Mumbai.

MS. MANISHA RANA

CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER AT KOOVS

A trusted senior marketing professional with National Level Senior Leadership experience in Marketing. Turnaround specialist with proven abilities in setting up marketing teams from inception and converting them into high revenue generating function, while focusing on developing a watertight marketing operations model that delivers sustainable ROI.

A marketing specialist with an in-depth understanding of the evolving digital ecosystem and am a strong advocate of leveraging data and consumer insights to define the strategy while maintaining focus on customer satisfaction, ROI, quality delivery and cost management.
Extensive experience in managing all channels of marketing – online and traditional. A proactive planner with cross-functional expertise in Strategic planning, Business Analysis, Research and Consumer Insight.

She carry with her a rich experience of evangelizing and shaping, both strategy & communication addressing challenges for businesses across media, digital and industry thought leadership. Proficient in leading large teams and working in cohesion with cross functional groups globally.

She enjoy owning, building and scaling high impact consumer facing businesses, by combining her strong marketing & analytical foundation and entrepreneurial approach to getting things done.

MR. NEERAJ BANSAL

COUNTRY HEAD FOR INDIA AT ADPARLOR

Neeraj is the Country head for India at AdParlor. Responsible for the GTM (go-to- market) strategy in the country, the seasoned sales leader will oversee operations, business development and client retention of the social and video advertising platform.

With over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing in various global leadership roles, Neeraj has extensive experience in building & scaling businesses, defining growth & monetization strategies and building effective teams. As such, companies around the world such as Google, Sony Ericsson, IgniteWorld & Ericsson have gained significant market share and built up their brand presence through Neeraj’s efforts.

A passionate digital evangelist, Neeraj joined Google during the infancy of digital advertising. Based in the EMEA HQ of Google (Ireland office), he played an integral role in creating the monetization model for SMB’s, forming the global expansion team, and also helping Google build and scale business in emerging markets.

Today, Neeraj continues to steer the region through rapidly evolving trends in digital advertising and programmatic buying at AdParlor. Neeraj’s track record of breaking into new markets and leading high-performing teams makes AdParlor well-positioned to take on the Indian market.

When Neeraj is not at his desk, he can be found spending time with his two sons, or travelling across countries (50+ and still counting) to experience different cultures and foods.

He is passionate on creating “remarkable experiences” for his customers by creating deep partnerships with leading digital brands , using new media,tools and technology to drive consumer preference , accelerate and grow digital acquisitions and create sustainable differentiation from the competition.

Love building and working in high-performing teams and helping team-members realize their full potential.

MS. AWITA BADONIA

DIRECTOR (CSM) INDIA AT NOKIA

Currently I am IT Head CSM for India region at NOKIA . My job responsibilities include end to end service delivery inclusive of EUC, Networks, DataCenter with core focus on customer satisfaction maintaining partnership with outsourced vendors . IT Governance, IT transformation, IT Operations , Capactiy/Cost Projections , Budget Control are implicit functions of my role and responsibilities.

I have 25 years plus of experience in IT/Telecom domain. I also have an extensive experience in Research and Development which involves Development, Project Delivery, Product Management, Presales, etc in Switching, Embedded, BSS /OSS domainPrior to Alcatel Lucent I have served Tech Mahindra as Group Head BT and Network Programs as Director (P&L Head of Switching and Embedded) .

I am a lead auditor for SEI CMM Level5, ISO 9001, TL9000, ISO27001 also a CSPO and Prince2 certified. I have several published articles in leading magazines to my credit and have been part of several panel discussions.

I am also leading StrongHer a Women Growth and Networking group in India.

MS. ANSOO GUPTA

COO AT PINSTORM

Ansoo Gupta, with her corporate experience spanning 20 years, has had a meteoric rise in her career as a marketing and media professional. On the way she collected a deep & relevant set of experience across fields as diverse as print, television, brand management, e-commerce, search engine marketing, social media management and mobile marketing.

In her last role, as the Brand Manager at Fox Network, Ansoo helped launch The History Channel on television sets across India and South-East Asia. She had a long stint at Star TV and National Geographic Channel. She came to these roles after gaining print experience at First City and Sun Publications.

Ansoo is currently the Chief Operating Officer of multinational digital brands management firm Pinstorm. She runs a multinational team across India, Singapore, Malaysia, USA and Europe that looks to help clients across the world with innovative and effective marketing and branding solutions using digital media, while building a sound and profitable organization.

Ansoo’s blend of sound traditional theories applied to modern economy, experience across traditional and new media, belonging to Gen X and working with the millenials gives her a sharp edge to analyse many new challenges with a fresh perspective and be able to adapt communication and operations to current technological platforms. She regularly speaks at industry conferences and in colleges.

She was conferred Corporate Excellence Award by her alma mater Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management and an Achiever of Excellence Award in Marketing by Bombay Management Association.

She is a passionate, off-the-beaten-track traveler and believes thats the best form of learning there is and its what she encourages everyone to do. As her passion project, she goes around all over the country to encourage people to explore our world and conserve our beautiful planet. She has incorporated One Shoe Trust for Responsible and Mindful Travels to raise awareness about the issues facing our planet Earth.

She has appeared in TV talk shows, spoken at conferences and is a contributing author at various magazines, newspapers and websites.

LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ansoogupta

MR. AVINASH THARANI

VICE PRESIDENT - SALES AT SOCIOMANTIC

As a Vice President – Sales at Sociomantic, Avinash Tharani is responsible for working with brands and advertisers to fulfil their online marketing needs across India. Avinash has an illustrious career of sales and business development that spans more than a decade across organisations like Times of India, Affle & India Today. In the last stint with India Today where he spent more than 5 years, he built the base for India Today Digital & soared them to new heights. He has worked across platforms on Display, Mobile, Content And serviced clients across various verticals.

MS. DEEPTI KARTHIK

DIRECTOR, MARKETING STRATEGY AT SNAPDEAL

Deepti with over 8 yrs of experience in the field of sales and marketing started her career in FMCG working for leading brands under HUL. Subsequently she joined Snapdeal and heads their marketing strategy for partnerships and alliances. In this role she is responsible for working on both traditional and digital marketing channels. In addition, she is also responsible for devising launch strategies for the company and driving exclusive launches for Snapdeal. She has been at the forefront in the relaunch of Maggi portfolio on Snapdeal and has also successfully led the Sansung J series launch for the company. She is also involved in leading the growth story of sellers who invest in Snapdeal ads .

A science graduate from Hindu college, Deepti post graduated in marketing from the prestigious NMIMS university.

MR. RAMAKRISHNAN LAXMAN

HEAD OF DIGITAL BUSINESS AT ABP NEWS NETWORK

MR. NAVEEN KUKREJA

CO-FOUNDER & CEO AT PAISABAZAAR.COM

MR. ADHIL SHETTY

CEO AT BANKBAZAAR.COM

Adhil Shetty serves as the CEO of BankBazaar.com. Also the co-founder of the company, he has set for himself an incisive vision – that of making BankBazaar.com the go-to brand for investors and loan aspirants – which is shifting the contours of how loans, cards and insurance products are consumed.

BankBazaar.com was born in 2008 as the result of a frustrating personal search for a loan. Thus, they conceptualized a marketplace that made the process of taking financial products much more transparent and simple.Frustration turned into a multimillion enterprise in the eight years that BankBazaar.com has been in existence. Adhil credits a strong management team and a driven workforce for this unflagging growth.

Adhil held decisive positions at Deloitte Touche Tomahatsu’s US East Alliance and Cisco Systems before he dived headlong into scripting the BankBazaar story.

MR. GAGAN SINGLA

CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER AT ANGEL BROKING

Mr Gagan Singla is the Chief Marketing Oï¬ƒcer of Angel Broking and the core member driving Angel in its growth trajectory in the digital world. A technologist by training and marketer by passion, Mr Gagan Singla is one of those rare professionals who can simultaneously handle responsibilities of a marketer and a data scientist. In fact, his analytical, data-driven approach adds a new dimension to marketing. With unmatched skills in Marketing, Technology and a thorough understanding of Analytics, Mr Singla is leading the Digital Transformation at Angel Broking.

Mr Singla’s Core Competencies include digital and mobile strategy, digital marketing and scaling, customer analytics and insights, product management, data and technology driven enterprise transformations, brand building, Corporate Communication and E-Commerce. With more than 12 years of experience – primarily in delivering large analytics-driven transformations across multiple sectors and geographies, Mr Singla is the go-to man when it comes to devising strategies that are extremely focused and stakeholder-speciï¬c.

In his eventful professional career, Mr Gagan Singla has worked with prominent names like Hughes, PwC, Deloitte and Quikr India with extensive assignments in the UK and the USA. Prior to coming on- board with Angel Broking, Mr. Singla was the global CMO of Simplilearn, an online education provider of professional certiï¬cation training, based in Scotts Valley, California, USA. Mr Singla contributed signiï¬cantly to Simplilearn’s marketing eï¬€orts in India and Global Markets.

Mr Gagan Singla ï¬rmly believes that true knowledge is accomplished only when it is shared and discoursed. His spirited thoughts and optimistic nature makes him much sought-after speaker at various platforms. As an experienced corporate insider, he speaks occasionally at Universities and Forums on Analytics and Information Management, including University of California at Berkeley, Indiana University-Kelly School of Business at Indiana and University of Notre Dame-Mendoza School of Business at Indiana. Apart from his inspiring and insightful speeches, Mr Gagan Singla has also co-authored multiple research publications in the area of Graph Theory and Data Mining from the esteemed American Mathematical Society. Mr Gagan’s reputation as an inï¬‚uential personality comes with his membership of the Advisory Board of the prestigious DMAI (Data-driven Marketing Association of India).

A Graduate in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Systems from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) – Lucknow. His deep understanding of technology and customer behavior, coupled with his aï¬€able nature, make him a highly distinguished individual. Under Mr Singla’s dynamic leadership, Angel Broking has accelerated its all round digitization journey. Mentioned below are his prime contributions:.

Digitizing Business Process: Digi-Pitch consisting of Digi-Web, Digi-Talk, Digi-TAB and its integration with DKYC, where technology goes to the customer than the other way around has become a game changer. Further, several back -end automation initiatives were undertaken to ensure faster activation of newly on-boarded customers. It is the ï¬rst time in the history of broking industry where a customer can open a paperless account at his doorstep and can start Trading within 1 hour from completion of KYC.

Digital Servicing & Customer Experience: With an objective to continuously enhancing customer experience, MrSingla lead the development of a Digital Servicing Platform that ensures uninterrupted customer service through paper less and real time feedback and review mechanism. Customers can interact with company not only through APP but also through Social Media Platforms. Further, eï¬€ective use of Artiï¬cial Intelligence and BOTs, MrSingla helped the company build an automated customer feedback and complaint resolving mechanism.

MR. BONIFACE NORONHA

VICE PRESIDENT & HEAD - ECOMMERCE & DIGITAL MARKETING AT HDFC LIFE

MR. KHUSHWANT SHARMA

HEAD DIGITAL AT LG ELECTRONICS

MR. SAMEER GARG

VICE PRESIDENT - NEW ECONOMY GROUP AT AXIS BANK

MR. RISHIKESH UTPAT

VP, DIGITAL CHANNELS AT BARCLAYS

Rishikesh comes with over 16 years of Banking and financial services experience with strong hold on retail & Investment domains. He currently works out of Pune for a British transatlantic banking and financial services company headquartered in London. Rishikesh is responsible for running the Digital channels for the South Africa business. In addition to this he is an active startup enthusiast and keen Agile evangelist. In the past experience, Rishikesh has managed large IT transformation projects globally and carries strong experience in driving digital strategies, setting up large teams for both product development as well as service execution. He also carries strong experience on product development life cycle and has lead Agile product teams in distributed environment.

Overall, an Avid technologist with good hold on banking domain.

MR. NITIN AGARWAL

AVP, MARKETING AT SHOPCLUES.COM

Nitin Agarwal is AVP, Marketing at ShopClues.com. Passionate about consumer behaviour and brand promotions, he is an astute marketer who brings his combined expertise in technology, data analytics and marketing to his role at ShopClues.com. His key focus areas are branding, media planning, rolling out campaigns in offline and online channels etc. He helms activities directed at augmenting the e-commerce player’s customer engagement/retention and acquisition.

Prior to joining ShopClues.com, Nitin bootstrapped a health and nutrition start-up, Health Raga and was instrumental in setting up its e-commerce channel. He has over seven years of experience working in diverse industry sectors such as automotive, banking and e-commerce. He has been associated with some of the most renowned organisations in the world including Gulf Oil Corporation Limited, Ashok Leyland and Genpact.

Nitin has an MBA from the prestigious XLRI, Jamshedpur and a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from JIIT, Noida. He enjoys travelling to islands and is a certified advanced open water diver.

Vani is a passionate marketer, innovations specialist, and change agent. She was listed by ‘Business Today’ as the Hottest Young Executives under 40 in 2015, in a nationwide survey, amongst the 100 most Influential Marketing Leaders listed by the World marketing Congress for 2016. She won the ‘India Region Above and Beyond 2014 Chairman’s Award’ from Indra Nooyi, for successfully building a new platform of growth for Pepsi Foods in 2014. She won the Innovation Excellence Award 2013, and the AMEA PwP Sustained Performance Award

She loves driving change – be it shaping consumer behaviour, bringing in new ways of thinking, or new paradigms for processes or change to flourish and prefers an outgoing approach combined with creative insight.

She has 19 years of work experience and has worked on the best of global brands, managed cross cultural teams, managed complex launches, developed innovation mixes for different markets – most importantly, created and nurtured consumer love. She currently works with PepsiCo India as the Marketing Director on Indian Snacks – it’s been 6 years now.

She is experienced in working for large corporations as well as in start up environments.

Matthias Wurster

VP Marketing & Business Development | Unlimit by Reliance

Matthias has over 20 years of marketing and business development experience with a focus in the Telecom and High Tech industry. He has worked for Deloitte Consulting and consulted amongst others Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom as well as Daimler and other Automotive companies. He has a Diploma in economics (University Bayreuth), an MBA (University of Brighton) and holds a PHD from the University of Potsdam.

As a Vice President at Unlimit – the newly founded business unit of Reliance Group solely focused on IoT B2B customers – he is responsible for Marketing and Business Development. Dr. Wurster lives and works in Mumbai, India.

Sugato Banerji

Head Marketing | Videocon D2H

With hands on marketing experience across several service categories backed by solid direct sales experience and having worked in 2 start up operations, Sugato brings a cross industry learning of service marketing for organisations looking for rich experience with performance. When you add 8 years of working with the top ad agencies in the country, Sugato combines go to market scaling up skills with a thorough experience of brand building.

Poonam is Head of Marketing Function at one of the country’s most respectable and diverse business conglomerate, Aditya Birla Financial Services Group’s key digital business and India’s No. 1 Personal Finance Platform Aditya Birla Money – My Universe.
My Universe is a base of close to 3 million investors, managing, transacting & growing their wealth on the expert online portal. ABFSG is a part of the Aditya Birla Group and is one of India’s leading private sector financial services conglomerate. It mananges assets worth ~USD $ 17.5 billion.
Poonam has successful experience in providing strategic and operational leadership in unique challenging situations with proven ability to quickly analyse key business drivers & develop strategies to grow the bottom-line as well as NPS Score through marketing strategies. An achievement oriented professional with a rich experience in leading teams in Mktg across Financial services, Digital, Telecom, Media, Heavy Enginering, Lifestyle, Sports & Wellness, A proactive, Business first marketer, focused on consistently making an impact on business with bold & innovative marketing ideas. A specialist with robust surround marketing experience(Product, Brand, Communication, Digital, Social, Mktg Strategy) successful in integrated disruptive innovations and setting up Global best Practises & processes boosting brand value led market share & revenue.

A highly creative & strategic thinker, before moving to the corporate world, she was associated with small screen and All India Radio Station. Poonam is a well-known Business Conference Moderator & Internationaly Certified Wellness Coach. Her quest for quality is the prime variant that sets her apart from the rest. Her consultancy experience spans from Sports Fitness, Wellness, NGO’s, Religious Trusts, Infrastructure, Media & Electronic Business Channels, Advertising Agencies and Start-Up businesses.

Madhu S Dutta

Head Marketing & Digital | Raymond Limited

Madhu likes being extensively involved in building brands across diverse categories. From ideation to execution and it’s journey beyond, by involving effective deployment of multifarious communication tools & marketing skills to lead the brand into category leadership.

Her specialties include:

Marketing Communication

Brand Management

Strategic Planning

Creative Analysis

Sukhpreet Singh

Senior Vice President | DishTV (Zee Group)

Sukhpreet has well rounded experience in Business, Sales and Marketing roles in the FMCG / consumer durables / Media and Entertainment space. He has worked with established Indian and MNC corporations like Dabur, Gillette, Whirlpool and Samsung in various markets across India and South Asia.

An effective communicator with strong leadership and analytical skills, Rich experience of new product development & innovations and successful track record of entering new markets and establishing new brand / categories. ‘Hands-on’ understanding of markets and consumers blended with scientific approach and commercial acumen. Successful track record as functional head (Sales and Marketing) as well as a Business Head.

His specialities include Strategy, Business Head, Sales and Marketing Head, Brand Marketing & Strategy, Innovation. Setting up new business and establishing new categories.

A senior management professional with 20+ years of experience with large groups in Media & Telecom including The Times of India Group (Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd/ Times Internet Ltd.) and Network18 (Homeshop18) and TATA Group. Sound Business Acumen and wide experience in handling P&L responsibility for India and International markets. Successfully developed and launched multiple products and services in a global environment.

Some of the fundamental market shifts includes:
• Lateral & Geographical expansion of International Retail Voice – Tata Communications
• Founding Member of 1st. Home Shopping channel in India – HomeShop18 & Biz Head homeshop18.com
• Founding member of Digital Business for Times Group – Indiatimes
• Founding Member of E commerce business for Times Internet Ltd. Indiatimes Shopping
• Founding member of Radio in India with Times FM/Radio Mirchi – Times of India Group

He was named Group CMO in April, to lead,marketing and business shifts for the Group Companies at Dr. Batras across India UAE & UK, with a mandate & vision 2020 for the brand & business.

A native of Delhi NCR, he completed “Advanced Strategic Management” from IIM Calcutta , which included research project on “ Digital Media & E-commerce” .

Aparna Lal

Digital & Social Media Marketing Lead | Microsoft APAC

Aparna is a CIM Certified e-marketing professional with integrated marketing experience in the B2B & B2C domains. With core expertise in Digital & Social media marketing, she has worked in planning & executing digital marketing strategy for organizations spanning across various digital touchpoints combined with compelling story telling methodology and robust customer journey across owned, earned and paid digital channels.

Leveraged deep understanding of the evolving digital & social media platforms coupled with data driven marketing techniques and changing consumer behavior to create connected marketing and sales program for Microsoft, that helped generate demand, close direct business and grow pipeline for both products and services business with efficient return on investments.

She is a self-starter with keen ability to learn and acquire new skills, partnered with strong project management and leadership skills and ability to lead, drive and mentor teams and work in cross-culture environments. Initiative and Commitment to work with a high level of Integrity and strong influence and negotiation skills.

Recognized as Most Influential Digital Media Professional for 2015, by World Marketing Congress & CMO Asia.

Rahul helps marketers break down the silos in Digital Marketing and achieve a unified view of their customer, across marketing channels and devices. By leveraging the search “intent” signals into Display, Social and Video advertising, and enabling personalization at scale. He helps digital marketers in making their practice more efficient and accountable.

As a Digital Marketing Practitioner in his previous role, he had played an instrumental role in building India’s largest non travel e-commerce almost from scratch. Armed with this knowledge of knowing what really works, he now endeavors to help other advertisers surpass their goals and expect much more from Digital with the most advanced and comprehensive Digital Marketing Platform available in the market: DoubleClick by Google.

He has been featured on CNN Money and Fortune magazine for one of the “6 ideas for changing the world”.

He has been awarded the Best Digital Marketing Professional Award by the CMO Council and World Brand Congress.

Rahul is extremely passionate about Digital Marketing and Technology, likes doing things differently and is very fond of traveling, trekking, food, squash, badminton and swimming.

Vikrant currently heads the TV Online shopping business of Homeshop18 as a COO & is also responsible for the marketing function across TV, Web & Mobile platforms

Prior to this he led 2 strategic verticals of Bharti Airtel- a) Consumer Engagement & b) Digital. In this role Vikrant was responsible for Airtel’s Youth Marketing Strategy & led the launch of 2nd phase of iconic “Har Friend Zaroori” (Gold winner for best integrated campaign in India, 2011 at Goafest & Effies) and sponsorship & activation of India’s first Grand Prix – 2011 Formula 1 Airtel Grand Prix of India. Vikrant has also been responsible for revamp of Airtel’s portal (www.airtel.in) & led the strategic framework & roadmap for 5X growth in Airtel’s e-com revenues.

Before this Vikrant led sales & marketing for Airtel Calling Services (across US, Canada, UK & Singapore) with a P&L responsibility. Within 2 years he turned around the loss making Calling Services business via a revamp of the earlier business model & launch of innovative, disruptive propositions.

Vikrant has 9 years of General Management experience (Homeshop18, Airtel Calling Services & ICI Paints) wherein he has led business of scale & complexity. He brings together the best of classical FMCG brand & sales management in a complex muti-channel environment along with cutting edge digital marketing. He has spearheaded launches of successful FMCG brands such as Vatika Shampoo & Pillsbury Atta along with e commerce businesses such as Airtel Calling Services. Besides, he has significant experience in the launch of celebrity campaigns, design & implementation of winning brand portfolio & architecture strategies and 360 degree activation.

Coming from a family of Advertising professionals, she has derived her training in advertising from Damodar Warrior, (ex Creative Director JWT) one of the leading creative gurus of Indian Advertising. She managed an advertising agency for more than 20 years and now is a branding and marcom consultant to many companies and NGOs

Her core competencies lies in developing branding and marketing communications strategies, design & aesthetics, brand building, having serviced various B2C and B2B brands (process, food, hospitality, wellness, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, real estate, infrastructure etc).
She has a special interest in providing branding and marketing strategies to startups and social enterprises.

VISITING FACULTY

Over the last 15 years she has been invited by all the leading management and mass communication institutes in Pune as a visiting faculty. Her area of expertise is Advertising Management, Integrated Marketing Communications and Brand Management.
Visiting faculty to

Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communications (SIMC) PG and UG
Symbiosis Institute for Business Management (SIBM)
PICT School for Information and technology management.
MITSOB
MIT School of Design
PICT School for Information Technology and Management
International School of Business and Media (PG)
School for Fashion Techonology (Karve Shree Shikshan Sanstha)
University of Pune’s Mass communications department
Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
Vishwakarma Institute of Management
Indira Institute for Communication Studies etc

BOOKS: AUTHORED

‘Integrated Marketing Communications’ for DY Patil University of Distance Learning
Co Authored ‘Advertising and Public relations’ for Symbiosis Centre for Distance Education

WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING PROGRAMS

Conducted workshops on branding for women entrepreneurs under the Goldman Sach’s Women Entrepreneurship training program conducted by ISB and SIIB.
Conducted workshops on ‘Marketing for SMEs’ under the aegis of Sakal Media group and Posiview Consultants
She conducts creativity workshops / training programmes for industry professionals, corporates and students. These training programs and workshops help to discover and build creative thinking.

AWARDS

1986 – President’s gold medal for the best children’s book ‘Mother Nature” for BAIF
1988 – Best poster design award by CEAD, Pune for poster on propagating agroforestry for BAIF.
1990 – Best packaging award by CEAD Pune for chocolate box for Baker’s Basket
2004 – Best Menu design for La Brasserie restaurant by the International Tourism Council
2009, 2010 – Best presented wine booth for Good Earth Winery – Upper Crust show (both years)

OTHER INTERESTS

Student and practitioner of BKS Iyengar School of Yoga
Currently writing a book on branding and marketing communications
Invited by NGO called SMILE run by Vandana Chavan (ex mayor of Pune city and currently Rajya Sabha Member) to provide expertise in marketing and building the brand SMILE. SMILE is a platform for women to showcase their handcrafts. These women come from economically weaker sections of the society
Was invited to anchor the communications committee for ‘Branding Pune’ initiative by Mahratta Chambers of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) and Janwani.
She is well-networked and is respected for her expertise and business ethics.

Professional site: https://sites.google.com/site/rembrandconsultants/

http://nanditakhaire.wordpress.com

http://www.linkedin.com/profile

Diptakirti Chaudhuri

Head of Marketing | Manipal Global Education Services

He has immencse experience in building brands and acquiring users through digital and offline media. He has launched several brands as Marketing lead, all of them contributing to significant improvements in market share and brand KPIs.He handled 360-degree marketing programs: Brand strategy, advertising, product management, media planning, research, events & activation, trade & B2B marketing
He has got expertise in online and social media, having handled large user acquisition and engagement campaigns and has experience in launching new products: Market scanning, insight generation, prototyping & testing, proposition & communication development to executing the final marketing mix

Navin Talreja

Founding Partner | The Womb

Naveen has 20 years of experience in advertising primarily involving Brand Equity Management and 360 degree communication management. Brands worked on include Hindustan Unilever ( Ponds – Launched Anti-Ageing and Skin lightening and successfully migrated the brand from a mass , basic maintenance brand to the Mass premium segment. ), Cadbury ( Relaunched Perk and Launched 5 Star Crunchy), Volkswagen( Launched New Beetle, Passat and Touraeg in the Middle East & Africa),HSBC,Emirates Airlines, Fevicol. Kodak, State Bank of India ( Respositioned the brand from old , fuddy duddy to a brand that could connect with the youth). Have worked half my working life with Ogilvy in Mumbai and the rest with DDB in Dubai.

Sangeeta is a communication and marketing specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the field of branding, communication, digital media, campaigns and training delivery. She has extensive experience of working in a cross-cultural global environment.

Before joining CAF India, Sangeeta managed several communication assignments mostly for the countries in the Middle East and Africa. She is a commerce graduate with diploma in software engineering. Sangeeta holds a certificate in international communications from Chartered Institute of Marketing, United Kingdom.

Under her leadership, the CAF India brand has been successfully positioned as a trusted name in the sector and has created a remarkable brand recall amongst its stakeholders that is donors, corporates and NGOs partners. She has put in place a dynamic team to focus on future prospects of effective marketing of the CAF India brand via digital, offline, media and partnership space to help further grow the organisation’s philanthropy portfolio and market presence in India.

Her skills include a wide range of integrated CSR-marketing approaches and initiatives, effective communication tools focused on organisational development and management.

She has strategised and delivered dynamic campaigns in her previous assignments outside India. Few Awards and accolades she received include:

ï‚· When South Sudan became a new country, Sangeeta launched the UK Foreign Office’s digital presence. She received the ‘Above and Beyond the Call of Duty’ award from the office for successfully managing the South Sudan digital presence launch project.

ï‚· Queen’s visit campaign (UAE and Oman)

ï‚· Human rights campaigns – Living Ramadan in FCO

o http://storify.com/ukmiddleeast/living-ramadan

o https://www.facebook.com/livingramadan/timeline?filter=2

ï‚· Think Green campaign (Kuwait)

o She worked on various ministerial visit integrated campaigns – Prime Minister David Cameroon, Foreign Secretary William Hague, Alistair Burt and other ministerial visits to Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.

o She pioneered a digital evaluation process – an annual health check which is now implemented globally to evaluate the web presence of over 240 British Embassy websites across the world.

Nidhi is an Independent Marketing & Communication Consultant, Writer and Storyteller with over 17 years of experience. She specializes in driving ROI driven B2B Marketing programs for leading IT companies. Recognized for setting up processes and building teams focused at emerging markets and SMB segment. Strong focus on building communication platforms exploiting latest technology and Web 2.0 tools. She has also effectively worked on Offering Development activities like Capability Definition, Market Requirement Assessment, Pitch Definition, Proposition development and GTM campaigns.

She also provides training and workshops to academia and corporate in Services Marketing, Go-To-Market Strategy, Organizational Communication and Managerial Communication. She is a Guest Lecturer at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Millenium Academy of Professional Sciences, Symbiosis Institute of Media Studies, Pune and International Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore.
Her film “Aami” was the first of-the-children-for-the-children-by-the-children film in India, adjudged the best film in KFK film Festival Athens (2004).

Amit Daga is the MD and Founder of Deal Kya Hai? An online venture of DBM Marketing India Pvt. Ltd which has also become one of the preferred seller for Amazon India. Today, he heads DBM India and has a flair for entrepreneurship and it has lead to inception of Deal Kya Hai? – The online portal which sells to consumers directly and is also instrumental in success of other e-commerce giants like Amazon, Snapdeal and Flipkart.

Amit is an ambitious entrepreneur and has been so since the beginning of his career and has acquired a commendable expertise in Consumer Durables and IT products. He started his journey from a very tender age of 16 and by the time he was 19 he started his sole venture, DBM India with Rs. 8000 only and today the projected annual revenue of his company for 2016-17 is 500 crores. He initially started his career by selling customized Parker Pens and used to do door to door selling of these pens in various corporates in Gurgaon and today owns a swanky office in one of those IT Parks.

Amit is a determined business leader and maintains a 360 degree approach on things to enhance the overall trajectory of the business. He understands and identifies the areas of concern and intelligently levels the uneven path to ensure a rapid growth and success of the organisation. He has a great technical erudition, sharp crisis analysis and humongous enthusiasm in reaching out to people irrespective of the hierarchy. His diligent effort towards his dreams has set an example to the spawning entrepreneurs in India.

Apart from being business partner and national distributors for various Multinational Electronics and IT companies, he has also done investments in Tech Start-ups. One of his recent investment is Talocity Instasolutions Pvt. Ltd and he is on their advisory board as well. Further to this he is evaluating 5 more tech startups for investments.

Amit Daga is a commerce graduate from The Bhawanipur Education Society College and has completed PGDBM from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. He believes learning is a continuous process and his predictions towards technology empower him to learn and innovate in his field. By the time he was through with his PGDBM he was hiring staff members while his peers were looking for jobs.

Amit has been invited by various eminent platforms for delivering lectures on his life ventures and his success stories across India where he successfully presented his thoughts and vision. Alongside, he also shared his expertise and leanings, as an eminent speaker.

He is associated with various initiatives for society such as, organizing Mega Blood Donation Camp in which his NGO registered a Guinness World Record of collect 1 lac units of blood in one single day from 300+ centre across the country simultaneously.

Amit is extremely zealous about blogging and has flair for writing when he is not brainstorming with his business algorithms. He is a voracious reader and loves to explore new ideas in business. His vision and tough entrepreneurial mind will surely pave a smooth path for Deal Kya Hai?

Yogi Udgire

Director | Institute of Digital Marketing

Mr Udgire has over 22 years of experience in the areas of Business Strategy, Internet marketing, Digital Business Management, Online Marketing framework for Business, Entrepreneurship, Techno-Management, etc.

He specializes in Business Strategy, Business Development, Sales, Entrepreneurship, Self Development and Synthesis of Online & Offline Process and Systems. He is a Speaker, Facilitator and Trainer.

Raj Sharma

Chairman | Majestic Research

Credited with his innovative initiatives in conducting market research in India, Raj Sharma, Chairman of Majestic Research,is now re-writing the history of Digital India through market research.

Almost a decade and half back, Raj Sharma was the then force behind introduction of the first CATI set-up in India i.e. Computer Assisted Telephonic Interviews. With increased penetration and mobiles phones CATI has now become the most preferred methodology to conduct market research in India of which Sharma is considered as the pioneer.

Academically equipped with a Diploma in Industrial Electronics followed by post graduation in Electronics and Telecommunications followed by an MBA, Raj Sharma in his professional voyage has seen the evolution from manual typewriters to electronic machines that included photocopiers and fax machines.

Starting his career with Godrej and then joining a Dutch photocopying company name `Oce’, Raj Sharma never looked back as he then moved to Tata Nelco where he led marketing communications before joining MRSS India Ltd, a leading digital Market Research Agency in the country. MRSS is now India’s 1st and only listed Market Research Company that is a subsidiary of Majestic Market Research Support Services Limited, – One of Asia’s largest full service market research firm. MRSS is also a member of MRSI and DIN ( Digital Insight Network – Global).

At a time when India was struggling with 9.6KBS modems, Majestic under his able leadership introduced video streaming in India, which was then unheard off in the segment of market research. Video streaming facilitated in market research investigators being location agnostic and be in any part of the world and see and listen to their consumers in India real time. Going further, Majestic launched ‘Ethnostreaming’ which basically connected Boardrooms to Bedrooms and Bathrooms thus giving the global companies to further customize their offering for the Indian consumers.

At Majestic, the quest for introducing newer methodologies and technologies has became a norm than an exception. This was further built upon with tools like SMS Research; Online Panels; Eye Tracking; Online Communities; Mystery Shopping; Digital Tracking. Today, the firm is talking about new innovative tools including Neurosciences, Indoor Audience Measurement Systems, and Sensory Sciences and aiming to revolutionize the Digital Landscape of Insighting in India.

Regarded as a thought leader in the field of Market Research, Sharma has served as the International Features Editor for QRCA VIEWS, a publication of QRCA (Qualitative Research Consultants Association). He has also been associated with various organizations such as ESOMAR, AEMRI, MSPA, WAPOR, AIAI, UPA, ePHMRA, MMA and AQR. He is on the Management Committee of MRSI (Market Research Society of India) and also has recently been appointed as the 1st ever official Media Spokesperson of MRSI.

Anzaar Rana

Digital Marketing Strategist | Google

Anzaar is a professional marketing strategist with over seven years of experience in designing cross-channel, integrated marketing programs, especially through digital platforms. At Google, he leads key media programs and manages all strategic as well tactical aspects of running Search, Display and Video marketing campaigns for large corporates based in UK and Ireland. He is dedicated to driving customer success via marketing-dollar efficiencies and product adoption.

Anzaar’s passions and proficiencies include performance marketing, branding, strategic alliances, media planning, visual aesthetics and go-to-market strategy. He has worn the hat of a marketing advisor for several early-stage start-ups, and endeavours to continue helping new businesses to achieve their business goals through data-driven insights.

With an innate passion for new technologies and emerging trends, Anzaar strives to create simple yet effective user/ customer experiences. Digital marketing is an ever-changing space and his mantra is to always stay ahead of the curve.

Anzaar is an alumnus of IIM Shillong and Symbiosis University, and has served as a Rotary International ambassador to USA. He is also a seasoned swimmer with several accolades at the Indian and USA national swim meets, and from the Sports Federation of India.

An integrated Marketing Communication professional, with over 14 years of experience in Marketing Communication of which over 3 years has been with Bajaj Electricals Ltd. as General Manager – Advertising and Brand Development.

Ssumier S Pasricha is an Indian Television and Film Actor having risen to popularity portraying Shubroto in Code Red (Indian TV series), Shailu in Sasural Simar Ka on Colors (TV channel) & Randy Bhai in a Musical English play “Mahim Junction” Produced & directed by Shekhar Kapur / Sohaila Kapoor. His recent creation Pammi Aunty on social media has become a rage among the audience, Pammi Aunty is a middle aged Punjabi woman who has an opinion about everything. This character who has taken the internet by storm has spared nothing from Brexit, to UEFA Euro 2016, Airtel 4G and Game of Thrones. She rants about everything under the sun. Sporting giant pink glasses, her hair tied in a towel with the stuck-on curlers she criticises her daughter-in-law in her typical Punjabi accent. This Punjabi aunty is on a roll and she is hilarious.
Ssumier is fluent in 6 Languages. He has worked in more than 30 plays and has performed in both National and International theater festivals with renowned directors like Sohaila Kapur, Shekhar Kapur, Vivek Mansukhani, Sabina Mehta Jeitly

Ravi Kumar

AVP - Partnerships | AdLift View Profile

Ravi Kumar is a Digital Marketing Consultant and currently working as Assistant Vice President-Sales and BD with AdLift. Riding on the digital wave while serving companies likes AdGlobal360, mydala and Digital Monkeys, Ravi has experienced the digital world as a universe that provides the perfect blend of applied strategy and creative flair. Successful and appreciated completion on digital marketing projects has increased his enthusiasm and continues to bring together individuals, companies and brands to produce creative digital solutions. Ravi is also very active in sharing his knowledge via webinars.

Group Vice President & Head Marketing | Policybazaar.com and Paisabazaar.com View Profile

As Group Vice President & Head of Marketing, Sai is responsible for leading the Brand, Marketing & Social Media efforts at Policybazaar Group Ventures – Policybazaar.com & Paisabazaar.com. He carries a decade of experience across Brand Management, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Social Media and PR functions. Prior to joining Policybazaar, he had worked within marketing and brand management roles at leading insurance companies, Max Life insurance and Aviva India. During the early part of his career, he has also worked with leading advertising agencies like JWT and Publicis India.

Avinash is a performance driven B2B and B2C Sales and Marketing expert with more than 20 years of experience. He has worked with traditional and digital media for last 2 decades and got a good understanding of integrated media and marketing solutions. He has been leading and mentoring strong and successful teams to turn around businesses. He has worked in markets across India and worked with clients across verticals. Weaving creative solutions to successfully address complex marketing challenges has been his expertise.

His goal is to make a positive difference to the lives and fortunes of the people, clients and organisations he ever work with. He is a movie freak, a biker and an avid traveler. His interests have helped in boosting his creative fertility. His key strengths include Business Development, Ideation, Key Accounts Management, Leadership, Mentoring and Networking.

Kavita Chowkimane

VP - Sales and Marketing | Portea View Profile

Kavita heads sales & marketing at Portea, India’s leading in-home healthcare provider. She is a Consumer Marketing Enthusiast with 10+ years of experience across FMCG (Marico), PCs (Dell India) & E-commerce (TaxiForSure). She is very passionate about all things marketing & start-ups. Loves to translate consumer insights & ideas into tangible business results. She is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad & NITK Surathkal.

She has held leadership positions with Mahindra, L&T Financial Services Group & HSBC. She has also worked with brands such as Tata Motors, BPL Mobile, Draft FCB-Ulka and was the Marketing Manager for Saffola and Mediker at Marico. Her financial services experience constitutes of HSBC Global Asset Management and L&T insurance where she was Head – Marketing, E-Commerce and Customer Service. She also managed marketing for L&T Financial Services IPO and L&T Infrastructure Bonds.

She last led Marketing, Brand, Digital, Analytics, E-Commerce & Inventory Sales at Mahindra Holidays as Chief Marketing Officer. Both Digital & Inventory Sales has seen tremendous growth under her leadership. She also led the Digital Marketing Training for Mahindra Group as a member of the Group Mahindra Sales & Marketing Academy.

In the last 6 years, on the back of success of digital business at Club Mahindra & setting up the successful e-commerce business at L&T Insurance she has been invited to speak at technology & digital forums across the country and at International forums such as India Digital Summit, Ad-Tech, I-Media, CeBIT and DMAi. She has been a jury member numerous times for AdClub’s EMVIES, EFFIES, ABBYs; IAMAI Digital awards & DMAi awards.

Selected Awards & Recognition:-
2015, ‘Content Marketer of the Year’ award by DMAi
2014, SocialSamosa listed Deepali one of the top 8 futuristic brand heads in India.
2013, ‘Leading Woman in Insurance’ Award
2013 “50 Most Talented Brand Leaders of India” by The World Brand Congress
2012, PaulWriter recognized her as one of the top 50 CMOs for the Marketing & IT Recognition (M.IT.R) program for using technology to enhance marketing.

She enjoys teaching and mentoring and has mentored students and e-commerce start-ups. (Guest faculty at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai)

Experienced hand in managing customer service & collection revenues across Call Center, Telecom, Life Insurance operations with more than crores in revenues, & high-growth & established companies.

Participative management professional; results focused, practical and progressive leadership experiences have created a passion for surpassing financial and service objectives via a combination of excellent service delivery, lean operating methods and incentive driven rewards for team achievement. Derive genuine pleasure from transforming high potential staff into outstanding performers demonstrating the creativity critical to financial and operational success. Core professional competencies include:

As a Vice President – Sales at Sociomantic, Avinash Tharani is responsible for working with brands and advertisers to fulfil their online marketing needs across India. Avinash has an illustrious career of sales and business development that spans more than a decade across organisations like Times of India, Affle & India Today. In the last stint with India Today where he spent more than 5 years, he built the base for India Today Digital & soared them to new heights. He has worked across platforms on Display, Mobile, Content And serviced clients across various verticals.

Ridhima Kapoor is currently heading Gameloft Marketing for Indian sub-continent, Malaysia and Singapore. Having worked with both brands and start-ups across IT & Mobile VAS, Ridhima perfectly blends the traditional marketing methods and new digital initiatives for holistic 360 marketing initiatives. She is passionate about digitization of different aspects of business like consumer & market insights, product innovations, brand building, customer acquisitions, building communities & word of mouth through brand advocates. At Gameloft, she is working closely with leading Mobile OEMs, content developers and media agencies for co-joint marketing activities.

Kanika Mittal

Director - Brand Marketing and Communications | Reebok View Profile

Kanika Mittal took up the role as Marketing Head of Reebok India at the definitive moment when the brand
positioned itself as the fitness initiators and authenticators of India. With a healthy challenge ahead of her, she undertook her role with a single minded approach to innovate and introduce fresh ideas in every aspect of business. Some of these initiatives included Reebok’s massive brand campaign featuring 3 fitness icons – MS Dhoni, John Abraham and Nargis Fakri to reinforce the fitness positioning , the path-breaking digital innovation ‘Ignite your Fitness Fire’ and more recently a successful global launch for the Reebok ZQuick. Her leadership also led to clutter breaking Retail, OOH concepts with PR & Digital playing a key role in orchestrating the reach and engagement quotient of various marketing programs. The latest addition to her achievements is the undertaking of John Abraham and Nargis Fakhri as the fitness ambassador for Reebok India.

Over the last 7 years as part of the Marketing team at Reebok Kanika has had a range of incredible results across the Communications mandate including Integrated Marketing, Corporate Communications and PR, Research, Product launches and transitioning to a new positioning for the brand. Through marketing innovations, topical digital initiatives and an ability to optimize her budget for best results, Kanika has helped Reebok gain a strong foothold in the consumer mind and heart space while keeping commercial and business objectives at the heart of all strategy. She has been an integral part of the leadership team and has effectively led the communication of the brand to convey their reinforced fitness positioning.

Kanika has many successful campaigns under her belt including the recent ‘Live with Fire’ campaign featuring MS Dhoni, Nargis Fakhri and John Abraham, the highly innovative ZQuick Campaign, the clutter breaking EasyTone campaign, the campaign which transformed Reebok into a fitness brand – CrossFit and RealFlex and more.

As a professional, Kanika is insightful, hands-on, and believes in managing her team by empowering them. Kanika completed her Bachelors in Commerce from Delhi University followed by a 2 year MBA from MICA wherein she majored in Brand Management and ranked in top 10% of her batch.

Nidhi Hola

Sr. Director of Marketing | GoDaddy India View Profile

Nidhi Hola is the Sr. Director of Marketing at GoDaddy India, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses. She leads the strategy development & execution of marketing campaigns for GoDaddy in India, helping position the company as the largest platform for Indian SMB’s and entrepreneurs to get online and grow their businesses.
With over 17 years of experience in marketing & communications, Nidhi is proficient in the creation & execution of performance-driven, integrated B2B & B2C campaigns in corporate & agency environments.
In her current role, Nidhi is responsible for driving all aspects of marketing, advertising, branding, sponsorships, marketing alliances, research and channel marketing. She is also responsible for orchestrating the company’s PR and social media campaigns.
Nidhi believes that execution is also a strategy and the two are inseparable

He has brought success to top-notch assignments across Blue Chip FMCG, BFSI and Retail companies across India & Middle East North Africa; through relentless focus on values-driven sustainable growth.

He has senior management experience in Strategy, Systems & Skills development, P&L Driving, Recruitment & Talent management, Setting up/ strengthening Marketing Departments as well as founding a New Business Division.

MR. GYAN GUPTA

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AT DAINIK BHASKAR DIGITAL

Gyan Gupta is the Chief Executive Officer of DB Digital, the digital arm of Dainik Bhaskar Group since April, 2015. Earlier, he served as the COO of DB Digital and has been associated with the organization for almost 8 years. He comes with 18 years of exhaustive experience in media, digital content and technology; handling multiple profiles including Business Development, Marketing & Pre-Sales, and Delivery & Operations. Under his abled guidance dainikbhaskar.com witnessed unprecedented growth and success by emerging as the Second Largest News Destination in the country and the World’s Largest Hindi News Site, as per comScore. He has been instrumental in conceptualizing and introducing many unique features and new properties to the portfolio of DB Digital.

MR. NIRAJ KAUSHIK

SR. VICE-PRESIDENT OF DIGITAL AT TECH MAHINDRA

Niraj Kaushik is Sr. Vice-President of Digital at Tech Mahindra. In order to serve its customers better in the Digital age, Tech M itself needs to transform from an IT services provider to a Digital services provider. Niraj’s charter is to create the transformation strategy and then execute on various levels like Business, Delivery, Skills and Branding to deliver the revenue and innovation goals for its customers. He has led business and strategy in critical growth areas of digital and cloud, and was instrumental in Oracle India achieving exponential growth in cloud. Niraj has been associated with the IT industry for more than 27 years in various leadership roles at Trend Micro, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and HCL. He is excited to explore new business models and be a change agent. Niraj holds a degree in Electronics Engineering from Nagpur University and is an alumnus of the ISB-Kellog Global Advanced Program on Leadership.

MR. GULSHAN VERMA

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER AT TIMES INTERNET LIMITED

Gulshan Verma is the Chief Revenue Officer at Times Internet Limited – India’s largest Internet Network and the digital venture of Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited, India's largest media conglomerate. He will be leading the charge for TIL and its variety of businesses in the online and mobile space.

Gulshan has over 15 years of experience in the digital media industry, having worked in Europe, North America and Asia. Prior to joining TIL, Gulshan has enjoyed successful stints as the General Manager SEA and India Outbrain, Chief Revenue Officer, Komli Media, Director of Sales Strategy for Yahoo! India, and Director of Product Marketing for Yahoo! Search Marketing in the United States across the years

He has also worked for Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Co and IMG.

Gulshan has a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, a Masters in Political Economy and a BSc Economics from the London School of Economics, and holds two patents in search monetization.

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulshan

MR. KUNAL TOMAR

GENERAL MANAGER AT EXPERIAN SERVICES INDIA

MR. APURVA CHAMARIA

VICE PRESIDENT & HEAD, CORPORATE MARKETING AT HCL TECH

Apurva Chamaria is the Vice President and Head of Corporate Marketing for HCL Technologies, a 7 Bn US$ global IT major. Under his leadership HCL became the fastest growing brand in the Interbrand top Indian brands list for 2 years in a row (No. 18 in 2015) and was valued in the Brand Finance Global 500 2016 league table with a brand value of 3.2 Bn US$ (up by 23% with a rating of AA+). In the last 3 years the HCL campaigns have won 101 prestigious global and regional marketing awards. In his 11 years at HCL, he’s performed various roles including being CEO’s Vineet Nayar’s EA, Sales Director at HCL America driving business development and leading Marketing and Strategy for Enterprise Applications Business.

He has worked in various sales & marketing positions at Ranbaxy Laboratories (now Sun Pharmaceuticals). He’s also been a journalist and a client servicing executive at an advertising agency. In various parts of his career he’s worked in Asia-Pacific, India, Africa, U.K. and North America.

Thought-Leader: He’s regarded as a thought-leader on “digital transformation” and is regularly quoted in publications. He’s a sought after speaker and has key-noted at TED x, IAMAI MarCon, DMAI GMAW, Oracle Cloud World, LinkedIn Tech Connect, Microsoft Ignite, Paul Writer GIIMS, Hindustan Times Top 50 Brands, Exchange for Media Pitch Top 50 Brands etc. and teaches a full credit digital marketing course at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC)& Great Lakes Institute of Management. He’s a member of the advisory board at Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA), Ahmedabad. He’s active member of the Rotary Club Delhi Mid-West.

Journalist & Author: He’s a columnist for the Pitch and Digital Market Asia magazines. His book “You are the key – unlocking doors through Social Selling” (Bloomsbury) hit # 2 in the Amazon India Best-Sellers list*within 20 days of being launched in Jan 2016 and is currently a best-seller on the WH Smith best-seller list as #1. It was also recognized by Prime-minister Modi for contributing to Digital India.

Mentor & Angel Investor: In his spare times he likes mentoring start-ups and helping them scale their business. Some of the start-ups he’s mentoring include Play Your Sports (Sports-Tech), Funlockar, Filmwallahs (Media-Tech), Sponsify me (Ad-tech), Instafeez & Chq Book (Fin-Tech), etc. Government of India recently appointed Apurva as an advisor to Invest India, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.

He holds a double master’s in business management (PGP from IMI) and advertising (from IIMC, JNU). He completed hisschooling from Mayo College, Ajmer. Currently he’s pursuing his senior executive leadership program from Harvard Business School, Boston.

Sangeeta is a communication and marketing specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the field of branding, communication, digital media, campaigns and training delivery. She has extensive experience of working in a cross-cultural global environment. Before joining CAF India, Sangeeta managed several communication assignments mostly for the countries in the Middle East and Africa. She is a commerce graduate with diploma in software engineering. Sangeeta holds a certificate in international communications from Chartered Institute of Marketing, United Kingdom.

Under her leadership, the CAF India brand has been successfully positioned as a trusted name in the sector and has created a remarkable brand recall amongst its stakeholders that is donors, corporates and NGOs partners. She has put in place a dynamic team to focus on future prospects of effective marketing of the CAF India brand via digital, offline, media and partnership space to help further grow the organisation’s philanthropy portfolio and market presence in India.

Her skills include a wide range of integrated CSR-marketing approaches and initiatives, effective communication tools focused on organisational development and management.

She has strategised and delivered dynamic campaigns in her previous assignments outside India. Few Awards and accolades she received include:

ï‚· Award winning campaigns like Right To sanitation and Click To Clean

ï‚· Award winning Speed Sisters campaign in Jerusalem

https://www.facebook.com/speedsisters

ï‚· When South Sudan became a new country, Sangeeta launched the UK Foreign Office’s digital presence. She received the ‘Above and Beyond the Call of Duty’ award from the office for successfully managing the South Sudan digital presence launch project.

ï‚· Queen’s visit campaign (UAE and Oman)

ï‚· Human rights campaigns – Living Ramadan in FCO

o http://storify.com/ukmiddleeast/living-ramadan

o https://www.facebook.com/livingramadan/timeline?filter=2

ï‚· Think Green campaign (Kuwait)

o She worked on various ministerial visit integrated campaigns – Prime Minister David Cameroon, Foreign Secretary William Hague, Alistair Burt and other ministerial visits to Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.

o She pioneered a digital evaluation process – an annual health check which is now implemented globally to evaluate the web presence of over 240 British Embassy websites across the world.

MS. NEHA MODGIL

CHIEF UX STRATEGIST AT TECHVED

Neha co-owns TECHVED Consulting India Pvt. Ltd since 2007 and is closely associated with the company as Chief UX Strategist. The company caters User Experience Design Services across various domains to top notch Indian and International Clients.Her passion lies in inventing new and powerful ways to make consumer’s digital experiences better. Her approach is often targeted to transform user and business needs into viable, usable and adorable product and interface solutions. Her 15+ years of experience in UX combined with innovative thinking and excellent problem solving skills is reflected in every project that the company undertakes.

MR. SUBHRANGSHU NEOGI

DIRECTOR, HEAD OF GROUP MARKETING & BRAND AT RELIGARE

As the head of the group’s marketing efforts, Subhrangshu oversees and offers strategic guidance for marketing programs across all businesses straddling a diverse bouquet of products, channels and segments. He is also the chief custodian for the Religare Brand having navigated it since inception and responsible for the overall architecture, positioning and consistency across all platforms. He is a key enabler for various alliances to effectively deliver cross sell, up sell opportunities leveraging synergies across the group portfolio. He has also been instrumental in driving various strategic programs in the realm of investor education and has consistently evangelized a “digital first” culture within the group. With almost 2 decades of experience in integrated marketing, sales and strategic business development roles spanning categories such as FMCG, Retail, Telecom, Media and now Financial Services, he loves to take on new challenges.

MR. ASHISH JOSHI

PRACTICE LEAD - IOT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS AT WIPRO

Ashish is Practice Lead, IOT Business Solutions in Wipro Digital. He has played both technology and business role in his professional career and brings with him in-depth experience in the space of IoT/M2M across various industries like telecom, industrial manufacturing, healthcare, energy, utilities and retail.Bringing the cross industry domain and technology knowledge, identifying real world challenges, and using this information to identify and solve customer problems are key passion for Ashish. The key to this is a right balance between technology & business.

His other interest lies in keeping updated with the latest technology developments and rolling up the sleeves and trying out stuff on the ground.

MR. SUMIT KUMAR

VICE PRESIDENT GROWTH & PRODUCT AT OXIGEN WALLET

An engineer and MBA by education, Sumit Kumar has over 11 years of professional experience in building businesses from ground up and managing P&L across several business vertical including financial services, online media and mobile advertising technology. Sumit is currently the Vice President (Growth) for Oxigen Wallet. Prior to this role, he has been instrumental in driving growth and opening new markets for companies like InMobi , Tyroo Technologies, Mobext to name a few.

Extremely passionate about technology, Sumit is constantly following the latest technology trends across industries and has spent most of his professional life in start- ups. Despite his professional and personal achievements, he is still looking forward to that “moonshot” moment. Sumit enjoys travelling, watching movies and is a fitness enthusiast. A big Formula 1 fan, he spends his free time gaming on mobile and Xbox. He also enjoys reading autobiographies and is quite adventurous with his love for experimenting with different cuisine.

MR. GAURAV HAZRATI

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & HEAD, DIGITAL INITIATIVES AT INDUSIND BANK

Gaurav Hazrati is Senior Vice President and Heads Digital Initiatives at IndusInd Bank. He has worked as an ‘Intra-preneur’ throughout his career spearheading various Innovations, Digital Acquisition and building Digital Business lines. Early in his career, he was the founding member of Axis Bank’s Retail broking Business and was instrumental in creating AxisDirect.in. Gaurav has done his MBA from Faculty Of Management Studies and Innovation management Executive Course from Harvard Business School.

MR. KUNAAL BHARDWAJ

MARKETING HEAD AT DAINIK BHASKAR DIGITAL

With years of experience in top agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, Havas, he is now spearheading the marketing initiatives and activities of DB Digital. After getting into the Digital Business, he is primarily focusing on the emerging markets in India, user acquisition, amplifying social footprint and market development on digital. Under his abled guidance DainikBhaskar.com has come up with multiple path-breaking initiatives and campaigns.

MR. MANISHA SOOD

DIRECTOR AND COUNTRY GENERAL MANAGER(INDIA) AT FITBIT

Manisha Sood is the Director and Country General Manager-India for Fitbit. Manisha has joined the company in August 2015, and was previously the Director, SMB for Microsoft India. At Microsoft, Manisha was responsible for leading the sales and marketing function of the Small & Medium Enterprise Business within India. Prior to Microsoft, she was at SanDisk where she was Country Manager & Director for the India & SAARC region for over six years. She has to her credit launching the SanDisk business in India and taking the brand to the leadership position. Manisha also evangelized Marketing for SanDisk in driving the brand’s first ever TV campaign in the world which was later introduced in US and Latin America region. In her career spanning over 25 years, Manisha has been in country head roles for over a decade-and-a-half. Prior to SanDisk, Manisha worked with Kodak India Ltd. as General Manager, Digital Capture and Home Printing for 10 years and with Modi Olivetti as Business Manager. Manisha has over two dozen leadership awards and citations to her credit including the Top 10 Most Influential People in Photography award five times in a row for her incessant contribution to the Indian imaging sector. She was also listed among the 10 Women on Top in Indian IT by The Economic Times and Telecom’s Women Team by the My Mobile magazine. Manisha holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Bombay University and a Diploma in Computer Science from IITC Mumbai.

MS. MANISHA RANA

CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER AT KOOVS

A trusted senior marketing professional with National Level Senior Leadership experience in Marketing. Turnaround specialist with proven abilities in setting up marketing teams from inception and converting them into high revenue generating function, while focusing on developing a watertight marketing operations model that delivers sustainable ROI.

A marketing specialist with an in-depth understanding of the evolving digital ecosystem and am a strong advocate of leveraging data and consumer insights to define the strategy while maintaining focus on customer satisfaction, ROI, quality delivery and cost management.
Extensive experience in managing all channels of marketing – online and traditional. A proactive planner with cross-functional expertise in Strategic planning, Business Analysis, Research and Consumer Insight.

She carry with her a rich experience of evangelizing and shaping, both strategy & communication addressing challenges for businesses across media, digital and industry thought leadership. Proficient in leading large teams and working in cohesion with cross functional groups globally.

She enjoy owning, building and scaling high impact consumer facing businesses, by combining her strong marketing & analytical foundation and entrepreneurial approach to getting things done.

MR. NEERAJ BANSAL

COUNTRY HEAD FOR INDIA AT ADPARLOR

Neeraj is the Country head for India at AdParlor. Responsible for the GTM (go-to- market) strategy in the country, the seasoned sales leader will oversee operations, business development and client retention of the social and video advertising platform.

With over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing in various global leadership roles, Neeraj has extensive experience in building & scaling businesses, defining growth & monetization strategies and building effective teams. As such, companies around the world such as Google, Sony Ericsson, IgniteWorld & Ericsson have gained significant market share and built up their brand presence through Neeraj’s efforts.

A passionate digital evangelist, Neeraj joined Google during the infancy of digital advertising. Based in the EMEA HQ of Google (Ireland office), he played an integral role in creating the monetization model for SMB’s, forming the global expansion team, and also helping Google build and scale business in emerging markets.

Today, Neeraj continues to steer the region through rapidly evolving trends in digital advertising and programmatic buying at AdParlor. Neeraj’s track record of breaking into new markets and leading high-performing teams makes AdParlor well-positioned to take on the Indian market.

When Neeraj is not at his desk, he can be found spending time with his two sons, or travelling across countries (50+ and still counting) to experience different cultures and foods.

He is passionate on creating “remarkable experiences” for his customers by creating deep partnerships with leading digital brands , using new media,tools and technology to drive consumer preference , accelerate and grow digital acquisitions and create sustainable differentiation from the competition.

Love building and working in high-performing teams and helping team-members realize their full potential.

MS. AWITA BADONIA

DIRECTOR (CSM) INDIA AT NOKIA

Currently I am IT Head CSM for India region at NOKIA . My job responsibilities include end to end service delivery inclusive of EUC, Networks, DataCenter with core focus on customer satisfaction maintaining partnership with outsourced vendors . IT Governance, IT transformation, IT Operations , Capactiy/Cost Projections , Budget Control are implicit functions of my role and responsibilities.

I have 25 years plus of experience in IT/Telecom domain. I also have an extensive experience in Research and Development which involves Development, Project Delivery, Product Management, Presales, etc in Switching, Embedded, BSS /OSS domainPrior to Alcatel Lucent I have served Tech Mahindra as Group Head BT and Network Programs as Director (P&L Head of Switching and Embedded) .

I am a lead auditor for SEI CMM Level5, ISO 9001, TL9000, ISO27001 also a CSPO and Prince2 certified. I have several published articles in leading magazines to my credit and have been part of several panel discussions.

I am also leading StrongHer a Women Growth and Networking group in India.

MS. ANSOO GUPTA

COO AT PINSTORM

Ansoo Gupta, with her corporate experience spanning 20 years, has had a meteoric rise in her career as a marketing and media professional. On the way she collected a deep & relevant set of experience across fields as diverse as print, television, brand management, e-commerce, search engine marketing, social media management and mobile marketing.

In her last role, as the Brand Manager at Fox Network, Ansoo helped launch The History Channel on television sets across India and South-East Asia. She had a long stint at Star TV and National Geographic Channel. She came to these roles after gaining print experience at First City and Sun Publications.

Ansoo is currently the Chief Operating Officer of multinational digital brands management firm Pinstorm. She runs a multinational team across India, Singapore, Malaysia, USA and Europe that looks to help clients across the world with innovative and effective marketing and branding solutions using digital media, while building a sound and profitable organization.

Ansoo’s blend of sound traditional theories applied to modern economy, experience across traditional and new media, belonging to Gen X and working with the millenials gives her a sharp edge to analyse many new challenges with a fresh perspective and be able to adapt communication and operations to current technological platforms. She regularly speaks at industry conferences and in colleges.

She was conferred Corporate Excellence Award by her alma mater Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management and an Achiever of Excellence Award in Marketing by Bombay Management Association.

She is a passionate, off-the-beaten-track traveler and believes thats the best form of learning there is and its what she encourages everyone to do. As her passion project, she goes around all over the country to encourage people to explore our world and conserve our beautiful planet. She has incorporated One Shoe Trust for Responsible and Mindful Travels to raise awareness about the issues facing our planet Earth.

She has appeared in TV talk shows, spoken at conferences and is a contributing author at various magazines, newspapers and websites.

LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ansoogupta

MR. AVINASH THARANI

VICE PRESIDENT - SALES AT SOCIOMANTIC

As a Vice President – Sales at Sociomantic, Avinash Tharani is responsible for working with brands and advertisers to fulfil their online marketing needs across India. Avinash has an illustrious career of sales and business development that spans more than a decade across organisations like Times of India, Affle & India Today. In the last stint with India Today where he spent more than 5 years, he built the base for India Today Digital & soared them to new heights. He has worked across platforms on Display, Mobile, Content And serviced clients across various verticals.

MS. DEEPTI KARTHIK

DIRECTOR, MARKETING STRATEGY AT SNAPDEAL

Deepti with over 8 yrs of experience in the field of sales and marketing started her career in FMCG working for leading brands under HUL. Subsequently she joined Snapdeal and heads their marketing strategy for partnerships and alliances. In this role she is responsible for working on both traditional and digital marketing channels. In addition, she is also responsible for devising launch strategies for the company and driving exclusive launches for Snapdeal. She has been at the forefront in the relaunch of Maggi portfolio on Snapdeal and has also successfully led the Sansung J series launch for the company. She is also involved in leading the growth story of sellers who invest in Snapdeal ads .

A science graduate from Hindu college, Deepti post graduated in marketing from the prestigious NMIMS university.

MR. RAMAKRISHNAN LAXMAN

HEAD OF DIGITAL BUSINESS AT ABP NEWS NETWORK

MR. NAVEEN KUKREJA

CO-FOUNDER & CEO AT PAISABAZAAR.COM

MR. ADHIL SHETTY

CEO AT BANKBAZAAR.COM

Adhil Shetty serves as the CEO of BankBazaar.com. Also the co-founder of the company, he has set for himself an incisive vision – that of making BankBazaar.com the go-to brand for investors and loan aspirants – which is shifting the contours of how loans, cards and insurance products are consumed.

BankBazaar.com was born in 2008 as the result of a frustrating personal search for a loan. Thus, they conceptualized a marketplace that made the process of taking financial products much more transparent and simple.Frustration turned into a multimillion enterprise in the eight years that BankBazaar.com has been in existence. Adhil credits a strong management team and a driven workforce for this unflagging growth.

Adhil held decisive positions at Deloitte Touche Tomahatsu’s US East Alliance and Cisco Systems before he dived headlong into scripting the BankBazaar story.

MR. GAGAN SINGLA

CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER AT ANGEL BROKING

Mr Gagan Singla is the Chief Marketing Oï¬ƒcer of Angel Broking and the core member driving Angel in its growth trajectory in the digital world. A technologist by training and marketer by passion, Mr Gagan Singla is one of those rare professionals who can simultaneously handle responsibilities of a marketer and a data scientist. In fact, his analytical, data-driven approach adds a new dimension to marketing. With unmatched skills in Marketing, Technology and a thorough understanding of Analytics, Mr Singla is leading the Digital Transformation at Angel Broking.

Mr Singla’s Core Competencies include digital and mobile strategy, digital marketing and scaling, customer analytics and insights, product management, data and technology driven enterprise transformations, brand building, Corporate Communication and E-Commerce. With more than 12 years of experience – primarily in delivering large analytics-driven transformations across multiple sectors and geographies, Mr Singla is the go-to man when it comes to devising strategies that are extremely focused and stakeholder-speciï¬c.

In his eventful professional career, Mr Gagan Singla has worked with prominent names like Hughes, PwC, Deloitte and Quikr India with extensive assignments in the UK and the USA. Prior to coming on- board with Angel Broking, Mr. Singla was the global CMO of Simplilearn, an online education provider of professional certiï¬cation training, based in Scotts Valley, California, USA. Mr Singla contributed signiï¬cantly to Simplilearn’s marketing eï¬€orts in India and Global Markets.

Mr Gagan Singla ï¬rmly believes that true knowledge is accomplished only when it is shared and discoursed. His spirited thoughts and optimistic nature makes him much sought-after speaker at various platforms. As an experienced corporate insider, he speaks occasionally at Universities and Forums on Analytics and Information Management, including University of California at Berkeley, Indiana University-Kelly School of Business at Indiana and University of Notre Dame-Mendoza School of Business at Indiana. Apart from his inspiring and insightful speeches, Mr Gagan Singla has also co-authored multiple research publications in the area of Graph Theory and Data Mining from the esteemed American Mathematical Society. Mr Gagan’s reputation as an inï¬‚uential personality comes with his membership of the Advisory Board of the prestigious DMAI (Data-driven Marketing Association of India).

A Graduate in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Systems from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) – Lucknow. His deep understanding of technology and customer behavior, coupled with his aï¬€able nature, make him a highly distinguished individual. Under Mr Singla’s dynamic leadership, Angel Broking has accelerated its all round digitization journey. Mentioned below are his prime contributions:.

Digitizing Business Process: Digi-Pitch consisting of Digi-Web, Digi-Talk, Digi-TAB and its integration with DKYC, where technology goes to the customer than the other way around has become a game changer. Further, several back -end automation initiatives were undertaken to ensure faster activation of newly on-boarded customers. It is the ï¬rst time in the history of broking industry where a customer can open a paperless account at his doorstep and can start Trading within 1 hour from completion of KYC.

Digital Servicing & Customer Experience: With an objective to continuously enhancing customer experience, MrSingla lead the development of a Digital Servicing Platform that ensures uninterrupted customer service through paper less and real time feedback and review mechanism. Customers can interact with company not only through APP but also through Social Media Platforms. Further, eï¬€ective use of Artiï¬cial Intelligence and BOTs, MrSingla helped the company build an automated customer feedback and complaint resolving mechanism.

MR. BONIFACE NORONHA

VICE PRESIDENT & HEAD - ECOMMERCE & DIGITAL MARKETING AT HDFC LIFE

MR. KHUSHWANT SHARMA

HEAD DIGITAL AT LG ELECTRONICS

MR. SAMEER GARG

VICE PRESIDENT - NEW ECONOMY GROUP AT AXIS BANK

MR. RISHIKESH UTPAT

VP, DIGITAL CHANNELS AT BARCLAYS

Rishikesh comes with over 16 years of Banking and financial services experience with strong hold on retail & Investment domains. He currently works out of Pune for a British transatlantic banking and financial services company headquartered in London. Rishikesh is responsible for running the Digital channels for the South Africa business. In addition to this he is an active startup enthusiast and keen Agile evangelist. In the past experience, Rishikesh has managed large IT transformation projects globally and carries strong experience in driving digital strategies, setting up large teams for both product development as well as service execution. He also carries strong experience on product development life cycle and has lead Agile product teams in distributed environment.

Overall, an Avid technologist with good hold on banking domain.

MR. NITIN AGARWAL

AVP, MARKETING AT SHOPCLUES.COM

Nitin Agarwal is AVP, Marketing at ShopClues.com. Passionate about consumer behaviour and brand promotions, he is an astute marketer who brings his combined expertise in technology, data analytics and marketing to his role at ShopClues.com. His key focus areas are branding, media planning, rolling out campaigns in offline and online channels etc. He helms activities directed at augmenting the e-commerce player’s customer engagement/retention and acquisition.

Prior to joining ShopClues.com, Nitin bootstrapped a health and nutrition start-up, Health Raga and was instrumental in setting up its e-commerce channel. He has over seven years of experience working in diverse industry sectors such as automotive, banking and e-commerce. He has been associated with some of the most renowned organisations in the world including Gulf Oil Corporation Limited, Ashok Leyland and Genpact.

Nitin has an MBA from the prestigious XLRI, Jamshedpur and a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from JIIT, Noida. He enjoys travelling to islands and is a certified advanced open water diver.

Vani is a passionate marketer, innovations specialist, and change agent. She was listed by ‘Business Today’ as the Hottest Young Executives under 40 in 2015, in a nationwide survey, amongst the 100 most Influential Marketing Leaders listed by the World marketing Congress for 2016. She won the ‘India Region Above and Beyond 2014 Chairman’s Award’ from Indra Nooyi, for successfully building a new platform of growth for Pepsi Foods in 2014. She won the Innovation Excellence Award 2013, and the AMEA PwP Sustained Performance Award

She loves driving change – be it shaping consumer behaviour, bringing in new ways of thinking, or new paradigms for processes or change to flourish and prefers an outgoing approach combined with creative insight.

She has 19 years of work experience and has worked on the best of global brands, managed cross cultural teams, managed complex launches, developed innovation mixes for different markets – most importantly, created and nurtured consumer love. She currently works with PepsiCo India as the Marketing Director on Indian Snacks – it’s been 6 years now.

She is experienced in working for large corporations as well as in start up environments.

Matthias Wurster

VP Marketing & Business Development | Unlimit by Reliance

Matthias has over 20 years of marketing and business development experience with a focus in the Telecom and High Tech industry. He has worked for Deloitte Consulting and consulted amongst others Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom as well as Daimler and other Automotive companies. He has a Diploma in economics (University Bayreuth), an MBA (University of Brighton) and holds a PHD from the University of Potsdam.

As a Vice President at Unlimit – the newly founded business unit of Reliance Group solely focused on IoT B2B customers – he is responsible for Marketing and Business Development. Dr. Wurster lives and works in Mumbai, India.

Sugato Banerji

Head Marketing | Videocon D2H

With hands on marketing experience across several service categories backed by solid direct sales experience and having worked in 2 start up operations, Sugato brings a cross industry learning of service marketing for organisations looking for rich experience with performance. When you add 8 years of working with the top ad agencies in the country, Sugato combines go to market scaling up skills with a thorough experience of brand building.

Poonam is Head of Marketing Function at one of the country’s most respectable and diverse business conglomerate, Aditya Birla Financial Services Group’s key digital business and India’s No. 1 Personal Finance Platform Aditya Birla Money – My Universe.
My Universe is a base of close to 3 million investors, managing, transacting & growing their wealth on the expert online portal. ABFSG is a part of the Aditya Birla Group and is one of India’s leading private sector financial services conglomerate. It mananges assets worth ~USD $ 17.5 billion.
Poonam has successful experience in providing strategic and operational leadership in unique challenging situations with proven ability to quickly analyse key business drivers & develop strategies to grow the bottom-line as well as NPS Score through marketing strategies. An achievement oriented professional with a rich experience in leading teams in Mktg across Financial services, Digital, Telecom, Media, Heavy Enginering, Lifestyle, Sports & Wellness, A proactive, Business first marketer, focused on consistently making an impact on business with bold & innovative marketing ideas. A specialist with robust surround marketing experience(Product, Brand, Communication, Digital, Social, Mktg Strategy) successful in integrated disruptive innovations and setting up Global best Practises & processes boosting brand value led market share & revenue.

A highly creative & strategic thinker, before moving to the corporate world, she was associated with small screen and All India Radio Station. Poonam is a well-known Business Conference Moderator & Internationaly Certified Wellness Coach. Her quest for quality is the prime variant that sets her apart from the rest. Her consultancy experience spans from Sports Fitness, Wellness, NGO’s, Religious Trusts, Infrastructure, Media & Electronic Business Channels, Advertising Agencies and Start-Up businesses.

Madhu S Dutta

Head Marketing & Digital | Raymond Limited

Madhu likes being extensively involved in building brands across diverse categories. From ideation to execution and it’s journey beyond, by involving effective deployment of multifarious communication tools & marketing skills to lead the brand into category leadership.

Her specialties include:

Marketing Communication

Brand Management

Strategic Planning

Creative Analysis

Sukhpreet Singh

Senior Vice President | DishTV (Zee Group)

Sukhpreet has well rounded experience in Business, Sales and Marketing roles in the FMCG / consumer durables / Media and Entertainment space. He has worked with established Indian and MNC corporations like Dabur, Gillette, Whirlpool and Samsung in various markets across India and South Asia.

An effective communicator with strong leadership and analytical skills, Rich experience of new product development & innovations and successful track record of entering new markets and establishing new brand / categories. ‘Hands-on’ understanding of markets and consumers blended with scientific approach and commercial acumen. Successful track record as functional head (Sales and Marketing) as well as a Business Head.

His specialities include Strategy, Business Head, Sales and Marketing Head, Brand Marketing & Strategy, Innovation. Setting up new business and establishing new categories.

A senior management professional with 20+ years of experience with large groups in Media & Telecom including The Times of India Group (Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd/ Times Internet Ltd.) and Network18 (Homeshop18) and TATA Group. Sound Business Acumen and wide experience in handling P&L responsibility for India and International markets. Successfully developed and launched multiple products and services in a global environment.

Some of the fundamental market shifts includes:
• Lateral & Geographical expansion of International Retail Voice – Tata Communications
• Founding Member of 1st. Home Shopping channel in India – HomeShop18 & Biz Head homeshop18.com
• Founding member of Digital Business for Times Group – Indiatimes
• Founding Member of E commerce business for Times Internet Ltd. Indiatimes Shopping
• Founding member of Radio in India with Times FM/Radio Mirchi – Times of India Group

He was named Group CMO in April, to lead,marketing and business shifts for the Group Companies at Dr. Batras across India UAE & UK, with a mandate & vision 2020 for the brand & business.

A native of Delhi NCR, he completed “Advanced Strategic Management” from IIM Calcutta , which included research project on “ Digital Media & E-commerce” .

Aparna Lal

Digital & Social Media Marketing Lead | Microsoft APAC

Aparna is a CIM Certified e-marketing professional with integrated marketing experience in the B2B & B2C domains. With core expertise in Digital & Social media marketing, she has worked in planning & executing digital marketing strategy for organizations spanning across various digital touchpoints combined with compelling story telling methodology and robust customer journey across owned, earned and paid digital channels.

Leveraged deep understanding of the evolving digital & social media platforms coupled with data driven marketing techniques and changing consumer behavior to create connected marketing and sales program for Microsoft, that helped generate demand, close direct business and grow pipeline for both products and services business with efficient return on investments.

She is a self-starter with keen ability to learn and acquire new skills, partnered with strong project management and leadership skills and ability to lead, drive and mentor teams and work in cross-culture environments. Initiative and Commitment to work with a high level of Integrity and strong influence and negotiation skills.

Recognized as Most Influential Digital Media Professional for 2015, by World Marketing Congress & CMO Asia.

Rahul helps marketers break down the silos in Digital Marketing and achieve a unified view of their customer, across marketing channels and devices. By leveraging the search “intent” signals into Display, Social and Video advertising, and enabling personalization at scale. He helps digital marketers in making their practice more efficient and accountable.

As a Digital Marketing Practitioner in his previous role, he had played an instrumental role in building India’s largest non travel e-commerce almost from scratch. Armed with this knowledge of knowing what really works, he now endeavors to help other advertisers surpass their goals and expect much more from Digital with the most advanced and comprehensive Digital Marketing Platform available in the market: DoubleClick by Google.

He has been featured on CNN Money and Fortune magazine for one of the “6 ideas for changing the world”.

He has been awarded the Best Digital Marketing Professional Award by the CMO Council and World Brand Congress.

Rahul is extremely passionate about Digital Marketing and Technology, likes doing things differently and is very fond of traveling, trekking, food, squash, badminton and swimming.

Vikrant currently heads the TV Online shopping business of Homeshop18 as a COO & is also responsible for the marketing function across TV, Web & Mobile platforms

Prior to this he led 2 strategic verticals of Bharti Airtel- a) Consumer Engagement & b) Digital. In this role Vikrant was responsible for Airtel’s Youth Marketing Strategy & led the launch of 2nd phase of iconic “Har Friend Zaroori” (Gold winner for best integrated campaign in India, 2011 at Goafest & Effies) and sponsorship & activation of India’s first Grand Prix – 2011 Formula 1 Airtel Grand Prix of India. Vikrant has also been responsible for revamp of Airtel’s portal (www.airtel.in) & led the strategic framework & roadmap for 5X growth in Airtel’s e-com revenues.

Before this Vikrant led sales & marketing for Airtel Calling Services (across US, Canada, UK & Singapore) with a P&L responsibility. Within 2 years he turned around the loss making Calling Services business via a revamp of the earlier business model & launch of innovative, disruptive propositions.

Vikrant has 9 years of General Management experience (Homeshop18, Airtel Calling Services & ICI Paints) wherein he has led business of scale & complexity. He brings together the best of classical FMCG brand & sales management in a complex muti-channel environment along with cutting edge digital marketing. He has spearheaded launches of successful FMCG brands such as Vatika Shampoo & Pillsbury Atta along with e commerce businesses such as Airtel Calling Services. Besides, he has significant experience in the launch of celebrity campaigns, design & implementation of winning brand portfolio & architecture strategies and 360 degree activation.

Coming from a family of Advertising professionals, she has derived her training in advertising from Damodar Warrior, (ex Creative Director JWT) one of the leading creative gurus of Indian Advertising. She managed an advertising agency for more than 20 years and now is a branding and marcom consultant to many companies and NGOs

Her core competencies lies in developing branding and marketing communications strategies, design & aesthetics, brand building, having serviced various B2C and B2B brands (process, food, hospitality, wellness, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, real estate, infrastructure etc).
She has a special interest in providing branding and marketing strategies to startups and social enterprises.

VISITING FACULTY

Over the last 15 years she has been invited by all the leading management and mass communication institutes in Pune as a visiting faculty. Her area of expertise is Advertising Management, Integrated Marketing Communications and Brand Management.
Visiting faculty to

Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communications (SIMC) PG and UG
Symbiosis Institute for Business Management (SIBM)
PICT School for Information and technology management.
MITSOB
MIT School of Design
PICT School for Information Technology and Management
International School of Business and Media (PG)
School for Fashion Techonology (Karve Shree Shikshan Sanstha)
University of Pune’s Mass communications department
Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
Vishwakarma Institute of Management
Indira Institute for Communication Studies etc

BOOKS: AUTHORED

‘Integrated Marketing Communications’ for DY Patil University of Distance Learning
Co Authored ‘Advertising and Public relations’ for Symbiosis Centre for Distance Education

WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING PROGRAMS

Conducted workshops on branding for women entrepreneurs under the Goldman Sach’s Women Entrepreneurship training program conducted by ISB and SIIB.
Conducted workshops on ‘Marketing for SMEs’ under the aegis of Sakal Media group and Posiview Consultants
She conducts creativity workshops / training programmes for industry professionals, corporates and students. These training programs and workshops help to discover and build creative thinking.

AWARDS

1986 – President’s gold medal for the best children’s book ‘Mother Nature” for BAIF
1988 – Best poster design award by CEAD, Pune for poster on propagating agroforestry for BAIF.
1990 – Best packaging award by CEAD Pune for chocolate box for Baker’s Basket
2004 – Best Menu design for La Brasserie restaurant by the International Tourism Council
2009, 2010 – Best presented wine booth for Good Earth Winery – Upper Crust show (both years)

OTHER INTERESTS

Student and practitioner of BKS Iyengar School of Yoga
Currently writing a book on branding and marketing communications
Invited by NGO called SMILE run by Vandana Chavan (ex mayor of Pune city and currently Rajya Sabha Member) to provide expertise in marketing and building the brand SMILE. SMILE is a platform for women to showcase their handcrafts. These women come from economically weaker sections of the society
Was invited to anchor the communications committee for ‘Branding Pune’ initiative by Mahratta Chambers of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) and Janwani.
She is well-networked and is respected for her expertise and business ethics.

Professional site: https://sites.google.com/site/rembrandconsultants/

http://nanditakhaire.wordpress.com

http://www.linkedin.com/profile

Diptakirti Chaudhuri

Head of Marketing | Manipal Global Education Services

He has immencse experience in building brands and acquiring users through digital and offline media. He has launched several brands as Marketing lead, all of them contributing to significant improvements in market share and brand KPIs.He handled 360-degree marketing programs: Brand strategy, advertising, product management, media planning, research, events & activation, trade & B2B marketing
He has got expertise in online and social media, having handled large user acquisition and engagement campaigns and has experience in launching new products: Market scanning, insight generation, prototyping & testing, proposition & communication development to executing the final marketing mix

Navin Talreja

Founding Partner | The Womb

Naveen has 20 years of experience in advertising primarily involving Brand Equity Management and 360 degree communication management. Brands worked on include Hindustan Unilever ( Ponds – Launched Anti-Ageing and Skin lightening and successfully migrated the brand from a mass , basic maintenance brand to the Mass premium segment. ), Cadbury ( Relaunched Perk and Launched 5 Star Crunchy), Volkswagen( Launched New Beetle, Passat and Touraeg in the Middle East & Africa),HSBC,Emirates Airlines, Fevicol. Kodak, State Bank of India ( Respositioned the brand from old , fuddy duddy to a brand that could connect with the youth). Have worked half my working life with Ogilvy in Mumbai and the rest with DDB in Dubai.

Sangeeta is a communication and marketing specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the field of branding, communication, digital media, campaigns and training delivery. She has extensive experience of working in a cross-cultural global environment.

Before joining CAF India, Sangeeta managed several communication assignments mostly for the countries in the Middle East and Africa. She is a commerce graduate with diploma in software engineering. Sangeeta holds a certificate in international communications from Chartered Institute of Marketing, United Kingdom.

Under her leadership, the CAF India brand has been successfully positioned as a trusted name in the sector and has created a remarkable brand recall amongst its stakeholders that is donors, corporates and NGOs partners. She has put in place a dynamic team to focus on future prospects of effective marketing of the CAF India brand via digital, offline, media and partnership space to help further grow the organisation’s philanthropy portfolio and market presence in India.

Her skills include a wide range of integrated CSR-marketing approaches and initiatives, effective communication tools focused on organisational development and management.

She has strategised and delivered dynamic campaigns in her previous assignments outside India. Few Awards and accolades she received include:

ï‚· When South Sudan became a new country, Sangeeta launched the UK Foreign Office’s digital presence. She received the ‘Above and Beyond the Call of Duty’ award from the office for successfully managing the South Sudan digital presence launch project.

ï‚· Queen’s visit campaign (UAE and Oman)

ï‚· Human rights campaigns – Living Ramadan in FCO

o http://storify.com/ukmiddleeast/living-ramadan

o https://www.facebook.com/livingramadan/timeline?filter=2

ï‚· Think Green campaign (Kuwait)

o She worked on various ministerial visit integrated campaigns – Prime Minister David Cameroon, Foreign Secretary William Hague, Alistair Burt and other ministerial visits to Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.

o She pioneered a digital evaluation process – an annual health check which is now implemented globally to evaluate the web presence of over 240 British Embassy websites across the world.

Nidhi is an Independent Marketing & Communication Consultant, Writer and Storyteller with over 17 years of experience. She specializes in driving ROI driven B2B Marketing programs for leading IT companies. Recognized for setting up processes and building teams focused at emerging markets and SMB segment. Strong focus on building communication platforms exploiting latest technology and Web 2.0 tools. She has also effectively worked on Offering Development activities like Capability Definition, Market Requirement Assessment, Pitch Definition, Proposition development and GTM campaigns.

She also provides training and workshops to academia and corporate in Services Marketing, Go-To-Market Strategy, Organizational Communication and Managerial Communication. She is a Guest Lecturer at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Millenium Academy of Professional Sciences, Symbiosis Institute of Media Studies, Pune and International Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore.
Her film “Aami” was the first of-the-children-for-the-children-by-the-children film in India, adjudged the best film in KFK film Festival Athens (2004).

Amit Daga is the MD and Founder of Deal Kya Hai? An online venture of DBM Marketing India Pvt. Ltd which has also become one of the preferred seller for Amazon India. Today, he heads DBM India and has a flair for entrepreneurship and it has lead to inception of Deal Kya Hai? – The online portal which sells to consumers directly and is also instrumental in success of other e-commerce giants like Amazon, Snapdeal and Flipkart.

Amit is an ambitious entrepreneur and has been so since the beginning of his career and has acquired a commendable expertise in Consumer Durables and IT products. He started his journey from a very tender age of 16 and by the time he was 19 he started his sole venture, DBM India with Rs. 8000 only and today the projected annual revenue of his company for 2016-17 is 500 crores. He initially started his career by selling customized Parker Pens and used to do door to door selling of these pens in various corporates in Gurgaon and today owns a swanky office in one of those IT Parks.

Amit is a determined business leader and maintains a 360 degree approach on things to enhance the overall trajectory of the business. He understands and identifies the areas of concern and intelligently levels the uneven path to ensure a rapid growth and success of the organisation. He has a great technical erudition, sharp crisis analysis and humongous enthusiasm in reaching out to people irrespective of the hierarchy. His diligent effort towards his dreams has set an example to the spawning entrepreneurs in India.

Apart from being business partner and national distributors for various Multinational Electronics and IT companies, he has also done investments in Tech Start-ups. One of his recent investment is Talocity Instasolutions Pvt. Ltd and he is on their advisory board as well. Further to this he is evaluating 5 more tech startups for investments.

Amit Daga is a commerce graduate from The Bhawanipur Education Society College and has completed PGDBM from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. He believes learning is a continuous process and his predictions towards technology empower him to learn and innovate in his field. By the time he was through with his PGDBM he was hiring staff members while his peers were looking for jobs.

Amit has been invited by various eminent platforms for delivering lectures on his life ventures and his success stories across India where he successfully presented his thoughts and vision. Alongside, he also shared his expertise and leanings, as an eminent speaker.

He is associated with various initiatives for society such as, organizing Mega Blood Donation Camp in which his NGO registered a Guinness World Record of collect 1 lac units of blood in one single day from 300+ centre across the country simultaneously.

Amit is extremely zealous about blogging and has flair for writing when he is not brainstorming with his business algorithms. He is a voracious reader and loves to explore new ideas in business. His vision and tough entrepreneurial mind will surely pave a smooth path for Deal Kya Hai?

Yogi Udgire

Director | Institute of Digital Marketing

Mr Udgire has over 22 years of experience in the areas of Business Strategy, Internet marketing, Digital Business Management, Online Marketing framework for Business, Entrepreneurship, Techno-Management, etc.

He specializes in Business Strategy, Business Development, Sales, Entrepreneurship, Self Development and Synthesis of Online & Offline Process and Systems. He is a Speaker, Facilitator and Trainer.

Raj Sharma

Chairman | Majestic Research

Credited with his innovative initiatives in conducting market research in India, Raj Sharma, Chairman of Majestic Research,is now re-writing the history of Digital India through market research.

Almost a decade and half back, Raj Sharma was the then force behind introduction of the first CATI set-up in India i.e. Computer Assisted Telephonic Interviews. With increased penetration and mobiles phones CATI has now become the most preferred methodology to conduct market research in India of which Sharma is considered as the pioneer.

Academically equipped with a Diploma in Industrial Electronics followed by post graduation in Electronics and Telecommunications followed by an MBA, Raj Sharma in his professional voyage has seen the evolution from manual typewriters to electronic machines that included photocopiers and fax machines.

Starting his career with Godrej and then joining a Dutch photocopying company name `Oce’, Raj Sharma never looked back as he then moved to Tata Nelco where he led marketing communications before joining MRSS India Ltd, a leading digital Market Research Agency in the country. MRSS is now India’s 1st and only listed Market Research Company that is a subsidiary of Majestic Market Research Support Services Limited, – One of Asia’s largest full service market research firm. MRSS is also a member of MRSI and DIN ( Digital Insight Network – Global).

At a time when India was struggling with 9.6KBS modems, Majestic under his able leadership introduced video streaming in India, which was then unheard off in the segment of market research. Video streaming facilitated in market research investigators being location agnostic and be in any part of the world and see and listen to their consumers in India real time. Going further, Majestic launched ‘Ethnostreaming’ which basically connected Boardrooms to Bedrooms and Bathrooms thus giving the global companies to further customize their offering for the Indian consumers.

At Majestic, the quest for introducing newer methodologies and technologies has became a norm than an exception. This was further built upon with tools like SMS Research; Online Panels; Eye Tracking; Online Communities; Mystery Shopping; Digital Tracking. Today, the firm is talking about new innovative tools including Neurosciences, Indoor Audience Measurement Systems, and Sensory Sciences and aiming to revolutionize the Digital Landscape of Insighting in India.

Regarded as a thought leader in the field of Market Research, Sharma has served as the International Features Editor for QRCA VIEWS, a publication of QRCA (Qualitative Research Consultants Association). He has also been associated with various organizations such as ESOMAR, AEMRI, MSPA, WAPOR, AIAI, UPA, ePHMRA, MMA and AQR. He is on the Management Committee of MRSI (Market Research Society of India) and also has recently been appointed as the 1st ever official Media Spokesperson of MRSI.

Anzaar Rana

Digital Marketing Strategist | Google

Anzaar is a professional marketing strategist with over seven years of experience in designing cross-channel, integrated marketing programs, especially through digital platforms. At Google, he leads key media programs and manages all strategic as well tactical aspects of running Search, Display and Video marketing campaigns for large corporates based in UK and Ireland. He is dedicated to driving customer success via marketing-dollar efficiencies and product adoption.

Anzaar’s passions and proficiencies include performance marketing, branding, strategic alliances, media planning, visual aesthetics and go-to-market strategy. He has worn the hat of a marketing advisor for several early-stage start-ups, and endeavours to continue helping new businesses to achieve their business goals through data-driven insights.

With an innate passion for new technologies and emerging trends, Anzaar strives to create simple yet effective user/ customer experiences. Digital marketing is an ever-changing space and his mantra is to always stay ahead of the curve.

Anzaar is an alumnus of IIM Shillong and Symbiosis University, and has served as a Rotary International ambassador to USA. He is also a seasoned swimmer with several accolades at the Indian and USA national swim meets, and from the Sports Federation of India.

Arun Malkani

Chief Marketing Officer | IIFL

APURVA CHAMARIA

Vice President & Head Corporate Marketing - HCL Tech

KUNAL TOMAR

General Manager - Experian Services India

JUERGEN HASE

Chief Executive Officer - Unlimit Powered By Reliance

30 Years

VANI DANDIA

Marketing Director - Indian Snacks, Foods, PepsiCo

10 Years

SANJEEB CHAUDHURI

Global Head & Chief Marketing Officer - Standard Chartered Bank

20 Years

DR. A.K. MANOCHA

Chairman and Managing Director - IRCTC

10 Years

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2017-04-04T11:56:12+00:00

Director, Jenext

Inkspell Media's hold on the Indian digital industry in such a short duration since its inception makes the Drivers of Digital Awards a potential property to become the most coveted and top digital industry awards in India too

https://www.inkspell.co.in/testimonials/sunder-pichai/

Deepika Garg

I have personally interacted with the organisers and strongly feel the process for Drivers of Digital Awards is most comprehensive and objective. Wish to see them as the top digital awards in India

SAP Consultant, HCL

5.0

2017-04-04T12:00:36+00:00

SAP Consultant, HCL

I have personally interacted with the organisers and strongly feel the process for Drivers of Digital Awards is most comprehensive and objective. Wish to see them as the top digital awards in India

https://www.inkspell.co.in/testimonials/steve-jobs/

5.0

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Our Services

Business Competence

Our team of expert professionals with extensive industry knowledge across all sectors and markets, help build robust business growth and marketing plans, strategies and protocols. We also provide exhaustive primary and ...

Rewards and Recognitions

We collaborate with relevant administrative bodies, industry associations, trade experts and domain specialists to recognise and reward exemplary work being done by organisations and individuals across all business sectors. ...

Meetings and Conferences

We organise professional meetings, seminars, symposia and conclaves where the concerned parties could come together and reflect upon the stipulated agenda in the most conducive environment set up by our team of experts. We also create large scale platforms...

Incentives

We develop plenary employee motivation and incentivising programmes which ensure great participation, fun and frolic, team-work and coordination and integrity thereby laying the edifice of a strong employer-employee ...

Exhibitions

We display and demonstrate your company’s products, services, policies, schemes and programmes by furnishing the most suitable and tailor-made activations and exhibition stalls along with our charismatic team of ...